In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

Upon hearing this, the others also placed their ID cards on the table. Xia Yan looked around and found that the identities of the people on the scene were roughly...

"Bridge Bean Sacks!"

However, at this moment, in addition to the group of people gathered around the coffee table, a voice suddenly came from the side.

A few people looked in the direction of the voice and saw a mature woman wearing a light blue sweater and a pair of glasses that showed her intellectuality.

Besides the few girls brought by Fujiwara Chika, the only other women who could reasonably appear in this office were:

"Yes, I am Yukino's sister, Yukinoshita Yang..."

"Snapped!"

The snow girl had a smug smile on her face, and pretended to intelligently support the frame of her glasses with her index and middle fingers. However, before she could finish her words, Yukino, who appeared in front of her as if by teleportation, chopped her on the head with a knife.

"Woo~"

"Stop embarrassing yourself, Mafuyu, let's go!"

"No! That game looks fun, I want to play it too!"

Seeing that the snow girl's face turned black and was about to drag away a certain snow girl in the deep winter, and the snow girl who was about to start throwing a tantrum like a primary school student, Xia Yan rubbed his temples with a headache. After thinking about it, he decided to smooth things over for her.

"This is our employee, Ms. Yukino Fuyu. Uh, as you can see, she's just like that. Please don't mind her."

Xia Yan looked at Fujiwara Chika across from him and asked, "Also, Chika, do you have any extra ID cards?"

"there is."

Fujiwara Chika waved enthusiastically to the Snow Maiden, smiling happily as she said, "But the custom-made chess pieces and talent cards are gone. Sister Deep Winter, do you mind?"

"Don't mind, don't mind~, let's play games together!"

After this little episode, Xia Yan officially checked the ID cards and team assignments of the people present. First:

【ID card:

1. Those marked: Xia Yan, Shinomiya Kaguya

2. Members of the Strange Investigation Team: Hikigaya Hachiman, Shijo Maki, Terajima-senpai

3. Student Council Members: Fujiwara Chika, Yukinoshita Yukino, Yuki Onna]

The three groups of people were located in different areas of the venue on the map of Xiuzhiyuan spread out on the coffee table.

"Let's talk while we play."

Fujiwara Chika took out three boxes of cards from the game box beside her and placed them in the empty space in the center of the map. "These are exploration cards. They contain various equipment that increase attributes, props for dealing with strange stories, and also the terrifying strange stories themselves."

"What kind of strange stories our characters will encounter next and what equipment they will receive will be determined by drawing cards. Also, people in different areas will draw cards from different boxes. Who will go first?"

"East, south, west, north, let the one to my east go first." Xia Yan suggested casually.

"Uh……"

Hikigaya, who happened to be on Xia Yan's right, was a little suspicious that he was seeking revenge. He grinned, but did not refuse. Instead, he looked at the map.

The small chess piece with his image carved on it is now located in the [Teaching Building], and among the three boxes of cards on the table, one of them has a blood-red word "Teaching" printed on the back, as if dripping with blood, clearly and distinctly.

Hikigaya pulled out a card, turned it over and took a look, and then... his face suddenly froze.

Seeing this, Chika Fujiwara leaned over to take a look and kindly read out the card for him: "You walked into the girls' restroom in the teaching building and encountered [Kaidan: The Ghost of a Dead Infant with Great Resentment, Inspiration: 18]!"

"No, why did I walk into the women's restroom?"

Hikigaya couldn't help but complain when he saw this. "And why are there ghosts of dead babies in the school toilets?!"

This brings me to one of the birthplaces of "Starting from baby hell, let's start over", the school toilet... although I haven't actually seen it.

Xia Yan thought to himself, don't ask, if you ask, this strange story was also designed by him, well, it's one of the special products of the school toilet, you have to try it, and:

"Walking into the women's restroom, isn't that consistent with your usual behavior?"

Xia Yan weakly stretched out his right hand and pressed it tightly on Hikigaya's shoulder like an iron hoop, helping him to physically harm Feng's reputation. He turned around and ordered: "Qianhua, you continue."

——Yes, so what if he is just taking revenge on a personal basis?

"Ah."

Fujiwara Chika nodded and immediately slapped two small dice into Hikigaya's hands, explaining, "Hikigaya-san, the strange story you drew is a spirit, and your inspiration attribute against it is currently 7 points. So, if you roll 11 on both dice, it will be able to compete with its 18 points of inspiration, and both sides will be at peace."

"If you roll the maximum 12 points, exceeding its inspiration attribute, you can kill it completely. But if you roll 2 points, it will..."

"What will happen if a 2 is rolled?" Hikigaya responded and threw the dice in his hand onto the table.

"Because your combined inspirational attributes don't even exceed half of the level of a ghost story, the dead baby will rip out your intestines and strangle you to death~Strangle~die~die~"

"Pooh!"

As Fujiwara Chika's face was full of smiles and the last word "die (vegetable)" echoed particularly clearly, Hikigaya's body completely froze, and Xia Yan couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Hey, this is terrible!"

For a moment, Hikigaya didn't care about the relationship between friend and foe. He turned his head and looked at the only male creature present who was of the same species as himself: "Xia-san, the game you made is really a piece of shit!"

"Hahaha...don't, don't say that, hahaha..."

Xia Yan barely suppressed his laughter and patted Hikigaya's shoulders repeatedly, "Death at the age of 3, but it's a must-try specialty in the game made by Fujiwara Chika and the others~!"

"Besides, I don't think this can be entirely blamed on Chika-san, you see."

Xia Yan casually turned over the exploration card he had drawn for Hikigaya to see.

[Weapon Card: Bamboo Sword: You found a handy bamboo sword in the Kendo Club's club room.]

[Effect: Wearer's Physical Strength +1]

Although Xia Yan's case might be considered an exception, Xue No, who was sitting on his left, also showed an exploration card.

[Student Council Card·Forbidden Spell Talisman (One-time Rare Item)]

[Effect: After using this item, you can seal a ghost with inspiration/physique below 20 points, making it unable to harm you! ]

[Introduction: Behind the cabinet in the student union room, there is an extremely strange wall covered with various yellow talismans and blood curses. You are forced to take a talisman from it for self-defense. Is this right or wrong?]

[Note: This item card can only be used if the drawer has the status of "Student Union Member".]

[Identity: Student Union Member: As a member of the Student Union, you hold the key to the Student Union Room, allowing you to access various special items. However, this also means that you're constantly busy with Student Union affairs, unable to leave the school until late at night, and ultimately trapped here!]

……

In the end, after a round of card drawing, although two of the 7 people and 1 Snow Woman drew Kaidan cards, none of them were as unlucky as Hikigaya, who directly rolled out the death number. Instead, they rolled out a value that was more than half of the Kaidan inspiration, triggering the escape option and surviving.

However, when they encounter ghost stories again in the next round, the value that needs to be judged in order to escape will be increased from the original ghost story inspiration × 50% to 60%. Each subsequent escape will increase by another 10% on this basis.

Then Xia Yan took the card and waved it towards Hikigaya next to him with a smile, which successfully broke Hikigaya's defense. He squatted outside the circle of seats and started to flip through the game rule book that he had asked for from Fujiwara Chika.

"I believe that after this round of experimental card drawing, everyone present has a certain understanding of how to play this game."

Chika Fujiwara leisurely placed the exploration card she had drawn next to her. "Also, when your character is acting, besides exploring (drawing cards), you can also choose to [Hide] or [Meet with Others]. The former means that as long as the dice roll is over 6, you can hide and avoid being discovered by the ghosts, but you will no longer be able to draw cards to obtain any power-up items."

"And if we want to meet up with members of other groups, we'll need to go through two rounds of field movement. This means that within those two rounds, the character who chooses this option will be unable to act."

By the time Fujiwara Chika said this, most people present had already figured out the essence of how to play the game. It was nothing more than drawing cards to strengthen one's attributes in order to deal with or escape from the ghost stories.

However, when drawing cards, you may face attacks from ghost stories, so you should take a rest (hide) or meet up with others as appropriate.

In addition, personal attributes, talents, and identities are all designed to increase the fun and variables of the game. Depending on the identity and talents, the same card may produce different operations and gaming experiences.

The ultimate goal of this game is probably to find the source of the school ghost story and solve it.

"Well, that's pretty much it for the rules. I'll draw one last card, and then we can officially start the game."

Then Fujiwara Chika pulled out a small stack of special cards and said with a smile, "These are scene cards. They were supposed to be drawn at the beginning of the game, but because I had to explain the rules to you, it was delayed for a round. But it's not a big deal."

"As for its effect, you can see for yourself—"

【Scene Card: Heavy Rain】

[Effect: When you come outside the building (that is, when you "walk on the ground" and meet up with other companions), you will be baptized by a rainstorm, and the cold air will enter your body. Your physical strength will be reduced by 2.

This effect will last for "one night"! 】

[Note: One night is divided into: the night before, the night before, the late night, and the early morning. Each time period allows 3 rounds of exploration. Try to survive the first night first!]

This is really a bit hurtful.

Xia Yan took a look at the attributes of the debuff in this scene, and took the lead in discussing with others. In the end, they decided that it would be best not to meet up with other team members unless it was absolutely necessary.

As one of the game developers, he knew that this game was essentially more of an escape game.

The minimum attribute of a ghost story is 15 points, and the strongest ones basically have 20 points.

The average attribute of these players is only about 5 points, some are strong and some are weak, but generally no more than 8 points.

In this way, in the early stage, as long as they encounter a powerful ghost, they will basically be unable to defeat it even if they roll the maximum value of 12 points + 8 on two dice.

Even the maximum 10 points + 12 physical strength that Xia Yan obtained through his reckless talent can only deal with 22 points, and is only limited to powerful monsters with physical bodies.

So in summary…

Let's play a round of game death first.

……

……

Time, night.

It was raining heavily outside. The big raindrops hit the window violently, making a loud and ear-piercing sound. The two figures huddled in a dark classroom in the laboratory building without lights suddenly trembled.

Xia Yan and his friend Shigong, who he only met once, didn't know why they had already left school and even fled to another city, but every night! Every night!

Every night they would inexplicably return to this horrible school!

They can't escape!

"Wow!"

At this moment, a human body model commonly seen in biology classes, with its internal organs and half of its muscle texture exposed, suddenly hung upside down in front of the two people.

[Kaitan: Human Model in the Biology Classroom, Strength: 17]

"Ahhh!"

The human-like face with stiff features and the human body model that revealed an uncanny valley effect made Xia Yan, one of them, scream uncontrollably.

Then he could only feel extremely terrified... With a face full of excitement, he pulled out an ordinary bamboo sword, and with three quick "bang bang bang" strokes, he suddenly chopped the mannequin into pieces, and the stumps fell to the ground!

"Jie hahaha!"

Looking at the figure who was laughing arrogantly towards the sky, he slowly said:

"?"

No, who among you is the scary ghost story?

Chapter 167: The Persecution of Shijo Shinki Begins

No matter where you go in the painting studio at night, you will always stare at your plaster statue?

This is another campus ghost story based on the "uncanny valley effect brought about by being human-like but not completely human."

Walking in the Xiuzhiyuan experimental building, Xia Yan, who was extremely arrogant and swaggering, took a look at this thing and raised his sword.

Nothing much to say, kill!

Then another [ghost of a person who committed suicide by hanging due to bullying] popped up. Is this a ghost story about a spirit?

It doesn't matter. My sword can also kill formless ghosts. Raise the sword, kill, kill, kill, kill!

The sword slashed the spirit, and finally obtained [Achievement: Demon-Slaying Swordsman, when equipped with sword weapons, extra physique/inspiration +1].

Just at this moment, a female vengeful spirit with a bumpy face, looking extremely ugly and ferocious, took advantage of the dim environment in the Shuchiin building, avoided the killing god in front of her, and pounced on Shinomiya Kaguya, who had always been following behind Xia Yan and looked weak and powerless.

This is [an extremely evil female ghost who committed suicide after being disfigured by concentrated sulfuric acid splashing on her face]. She is madly jealous of beautiful and lovely women. The more beautiful they are, the more she wants to destroy and kill them!

When facing a beautiful woman, her inspiration strength is +4!