I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained the rule item: Frog Brooch (Evil Spirit Possession)]

Prototype: Core fragments of the bizarre "Frog Selling Its Cubs"

Refiner: Slit-Mouthed Woman Saya

Rule Feature: The host can consume affinity points (50 points/time) to generate a frog balloon.

If the target catches the balloon, the game rules will be forcibly triggered, and the target will be forcibly pulled into the brooch illusion, where they must complete three passing games.

During the pass, the target will lose control of their physical body (currently only effective against monsters of the Ghost level and below).

Note: The balloon cannot be forced on; the target must take it actively or subconsciously. If the target does not take it, the balloon will burst after three seconds.

Completing a causal contract upgrades the rule item; once the contract is completed, the full rule will be unlocked.

[WARNING! This item comes with a rule contract!]

[Contract countdown: 167 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds.]

If the promise of revenge is not fulfilled before the countdown reaches zero, the evil spirit will break free and devour its host first!

This time, Lin Yan has completely driven himself into a dead end.

But this also means that in the next seven days, as long as he can afford the affinity fee, he will have an extra trump card in his hand.

"What are you spacing out for?"

Saya's voice pulled him back to reality.

Lin Yan looked up and found that Saya was looking at him.

Her once clean white cardigan was now riddled with holes from the black water, exposing large areas of her skin.

Saya, who is usually aloof and superior, showed a rare sign of fatigue at this moment.

"Did you suffer a great loss from forcibly tearing open the demon's domain just now?"

Lin Yan stuffed the brooch into her pocket, feeling somewhat guilty.

"I won't die." Saya looked away, put the scissors back in the shadows, and regained her indifference.

"Don't forget what you promised."

After saying that, Saya looked a little awkward and added:

"I don't really want to eat beef rice."

Lin Yan was taken aback, then couldn't help but laugh.

This is very Saya.

"Don't worry, I'll take you there once I've sorted this out," Lin Yan patted his pocket and assured him.

Just as Lin Yan was about to speak to Saya, a static sound came through his earphones again.

"Buzz... Brother, brother, can you hear me?"

Lin Yan was taken aback: "You're still here? I thought you went back as soon as your domain was broken."

"My brother is so heartless. He urges people to go back as soon as he no longer needs them."

Chu Chu felt wronged for a moment, but then immediately became happy.

"But Chuchu left a mark in the earphones, so she can talk to her brother anytime from now on~"

Lin Yan: "No need."

Chu Chu pretended not to hear and continued talking to herself:

"But these headphones are filled with that old woman's authoritative aura, it feels so cramped..."

Saya, standing not far away, turned cold and her fingers twitched slightly.

Lin Yan quickly smoothed things over: "Alright, alright, you deserve credit. Thanks to you just now, otherwise Xiao Ming wouldn't have been able to get in."

"That's right."

Chu Chu hummed softly, then suddenly became serious.

"But brother, in the last few seconds before the domain collapsed, Chu Chu managed to grab a bit of information about the rules of this evil spirit domain."

"I've noticed... something's not right."

Lin Yan frowned slightly, thinking to himself, "Can Chu Chu even grab bizarre rule information at the level of a demon so easily?"

"Something's not right?"

"Brother, do you know the conditions for the birth of something bizarre?"

"Conditions?" Lin Yan thought for a moment, wondering if the two bizarre things he had encountered before had anything in common.

"Is there too much resentment or something like that?"

"It's true that there's too much resentment, but the birth of a normal wild monster should be governed by chaotic and disordered rules, full of randomness."

After Chu Chu became serious, her tone also became more formal.

"They were like a tangled mess when they were first born, and they fermented naturally over a long period of time."

"The same applies to the realm of demon-level monsters, whether they are demons who have just been promoted from the ghost level or born demons."

"Their domains should all be disordered."

"But this giant frog's aquatic world is different."

"Whether it's the ticket rules, the ban on flash photography, the parent-child games that Chen Shusheng designed here, or even the enclosed terrain of the water park..."

Chu Chu paused for a moment, as if organizing her thoughts.

"These things seem to have been meticulously calculated."

"What do you mean?"

Lin Yan always felt that Chu Chu knew something but hadn't said it.

As he recalled the past few hours, a strong sense of unease welled up inside him.

Yes, it's incredibly precise.

How could an ordinary father's obsession after death so perfectly combine the water park's attractions with his son's illness?

Moreover, Xiaoming is a child who is unable to express his emotions due to illness.

What obsession could sustain him into becoming a monster?

Chu Chu continued her analysis:

"Brother, it's like someone has already built a perfect reactor and then put Xiaoming in it as the reaction vessel."

If that's the case, how can we guarantee that Xiaoming won't get into trouble?

After all, Xiaoming's illness prevents him from having many emotions, making him much more stable compared to other children.

Lin Yan followed Chu Chu's train of thought and suddenly the scene in Chen Shu's lingering thoughts flashed through his mind.

flash.

Xiao Ming collapsed on the ground, convulsing.

And the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Could it be..." Lin Yan's voice turned somber.

"Was that influencer's action not some coincidence or a ploy to gain attention?"

"Yes!" Chu Chu's voice was slightly cold.

"He's performing a catalytic ritual! This monstrous, demonic creature was artificially created!"

Lin Yan closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

He originally thought that Ah Feng was just a scumbag who profited from others' suffering for the sake of traffic.

But if Chu Chu's speculation is true, then this A Feng might just be a low-level executor in a huge organization.

"Brother, look at this, I sent it to your phone."

Lin Yan took out his phone; the screen was cracked, but it could still be lit up and barely visible.

It was a dark red mark with a very strange pattern on it.

A blood-stained eye, with a camera lens positioned where the pupil would normally be.

Looking at the totem, Lin Yan instantly recalled the day he first encountered the bizarre creature.

What Zhao Jianguo said to him.

There's a group of lunatics in the shadows who believe this cyber junk can create gods.

They specifically target these stale memes, flocking to wherever there's a trend, feeding the monster out of netizens' fears and online traffic.

Lin Yan didn't know the exact names of this group of lunatics, nor did he know how large their numbers were.

But he now knows very well that the internet celebrity he is about to hunt down is definitely not just a tough nut to crack.

Behind him may very well be an extremely dangerous terrorist organization capable of mass-producing grotesque monsters.

"Brother..." Chu Chu's voice was tinged with worry.

"That influencer has a complicated background. We only have seven days. Isn't that too risky?"

"We have to go, even if it's risky."

He touched the frog brooch in his pocket.

"If we don't find him, I'll be the one who dies."

Saya suddenly said from the side, "Your people from the department will be here soon."