50. Conjunction of the Spheres, an Invitation from the Witcher

"What the hell!"

"What kind of alien exploration corps is this? It turns out to be a sci-fi script wrapped in a horror skin?!"

Li Nuo muttered as he stepped off the train and entered the space.

It was still the familiar basement.

It seemed that no matter how you completed the mission or where the mission location was, being hit by a train and sent back into the space was an unavoidable routine process...

He found Chibai, who was sitting on the steps in front of the small house, and asked for the witch's head.

Visually, without the visual protection of pixel art, the old woman's ferocious and bloody face was genuinely horrifying.

[Head of the Evil Witch]
[Quality: Common]
[Description: Once upon a time, a bad witch lived in the world. Every evening after dinner, she would drink a cup of freshly squeezed corpse juice... From the Witcher world, mutagens can be extracted to make decoctions.]

"It really is the Witcher world."

"What is The Witcher?" Chibai asked.

"A very famous novel-adapted game." As Li Nuo replied, he had already opened his mailbox, where there were two new emails named [Real-world Script Rewards].

After taking one of them out from the mailbox, it emitted a white light and appeared in his palm.

Once formed, it could be seen as a letter. The note inside read:

[Conjunction of the Spheres Invitation Letter: You can use the invitation letter in any mission to take yourself and your teammates to the Witcher world.]
[Teammate Invitation Notice: Your teammate must also have encountered related missions to accept your invitation.]
[Remaining Usage Time: 72 hours]
[Note: The Witcher worldview under this invitation letter differs greatly from the original work, please use with discretion.]

Chibai squatted nearby, watching silently, waiting for Li Nuo to give an explanation.

She had already grown accustomed to the current atmosphere. Li Nuo would always stare blankly at something, and then in a short while, come up with a bunch of answers that seemed completely unrelated yet entirely reasonable.

Just like now.

Li Nuo put the invitation letter aside for a moment and said to himself, "The essence of the Kairosoft Game World is a pixel-style comedy game."

Chibai had read comedy manga, which Li Nuo drew for her so she wouldn't be bored. She asked, "So your essence is the same as that kid who took off his pants to show people his elephant?"

"Sister... I've never done such a thing..." Li Nuo took the second reward from the mailbox, which transformed into a jigsaw puzzle piece named "Kairo World Puzzle Piece (Kairobotica)".

[Kairo Piece]
[Quality: ???]
[Effect: Every time you collect a puzzle piece related to your main world, you can unlock a feature associated with that world's settings.]
[Current Puzzle: Upgrade-type feature]
[Unlock: You can summon a forging table during scripts to upgrade items or equipment.]
[Description: Sometimes, the lower starting point of a comedy game is not a bad thing. You must believe that the upper limit of the word 'comedy' is infinite.]

"Ah... Guessed right, I really am an NPC in a comedy game." Li Nuo wasn't disappointed at all; instead, he was quite pleased.

His interest in real-world scripts was growing stronger by the day.

"Then... am I also comedy-type?" Chibai pointed at herself and asked.

You lean more towards high-definition adult-type, Li Nuo muttered inwardly, saying out loud, "Don't doubt yourself, you aren't funny at all."

"What kind of world is that Witcher you mentioned?"

"I'll go back and find some materials to show you. Unless something unexpected happens, our next script will be The Witcher."

"Hhm, as you like."

"The mission assignments in the Endless Corridor are random. Rather than heading to some random world blindly, going to a prepared world is much easier." As Li Nuo spoke, he had already walked up to the reward pool of the [Probability System] and fished out a new Poké Ball from the blood pool.

He glanced at the data.

He let out a "What the fuck."

[Randomly Configured MOD Poké Ball]
[Quality: Epic]
[Effect: 100% capture rate when the target's HP is below 2%. The captured creature will randomly transform into a life form from any worldview whose power level is similar. Cannot be used on players, including yourself.]
[Description: Jack defeated the Chocolate Repeller and captured it using a Poké Ball. But when released again, Jack's Chocolate Repeller unexpectedly turned into a dark-skinned mermaid. She claimed to be a 'mermaid', but Jack refused to believe it! He was determined to find out for himself whether the mermaid before his eyes was truly beautiful! A week later, Jack died of food poisoning, though some say he died from parasites invading his brain after eating undercooked fish.]

Chibai watched Li Nuo lower his head, his expression shifting from initial joy to a constipated, gloomy darkness as he finished reading the entire text. She hadn't interacted with many people, and Li Nuo's changing expressions made her wonder if human emotions were always so volatile.

"What's wrong with this thing?" she asked.

Li Nuo looked at the Poké Ball's interface and complained, "I actually read the description seriously. I feel like my IQ has been violently assaulted."

"So what now?"

"I'll go back and organize some materials, we'll discuss it in detail tomorrow."

...

The next day.
Kairo Hospital.

A strange event occurred in the hospital early this morning.
More than a dozen medical staff members who had finished a meeting remained unconscious in the conference room until morning. These eleven people, including Dr. Xu, were in good physical condition.

Several nurses among them said they had had a strange dream—a ridiculous nightmare about a magical girl exorcising demons with a cleaver.

After examinations showed no physical abnormalities, these people were sent home to rest.

Additionally, Nie Wenyuan, the deputy chief physician of surgery, was found in the elevator. Compared to the eleven people mentioned above, his condition was more serious.

——I played Landlord with two female ghosts all night.

These were his exact words.

The dean arranged for a psychiatrist to open a special channel for Dr. Nie, expressing the hope that Dr. Nie would return to his post soon and stating that Kairo Hospital would always support him.

On the same day.
Noon.

"Could Dr. Nie fainting in the elevator be because he saw a ghost?"
"Don't talk nonsense."
"I'm talking about that elevator accident a few years ago. There was a girl in the elevator at the time, and the way she died was tragic... Her eyes, arms, and legs were all smashed to pieces. I heard the little girl was even wearing a red dress back then."
"Do you think she still likes playing Landlord?"

Two older nurses were chatting at the front desk when a young male doctor approached them.

"Excuse me, beautiful ladies, how do I get to the anorectal department?" He let out a cold snort, "Sorry, I'm lost on the path of life."
"Go straight, turn left, go upstairs, turn right."
"Alright, thank you."
"Are you a new doctor?" a nurse asked.
"Yes, I am Malsj, the Malsj of Germa. If you have any anorectal diseases, feel free to come to me. I guarantee self-taught proficiency..."

After Malsj left, the nurse who asked the question wanted to slap herself... Was he a psychiatric patient who stole a lab coat and escaped?

As Malsj followed the directed route past the warehouse, he saw a few cleaning staff complaining. Walking closer, he saw the warehouse was in complete chaos. Apparently, some malicious scumbag had placed a mannequin with severed legs in the warehouse, giving the cleaning lady a huge fright.

He glanced at the mannequin and didn't think much of it.

Until after work, the very first second Malsj stepped into the "Endless Corridor," a system voice rang in his ear: [You have encountered a script related to 'The Witcher', but because it is not within the same worldview, it cannot be launched.]

"'The Witcher'?" He frowned and immediately headed to the gravestone to contact Li Nuo.

Compared to the desolation of *Nier* and the high difficulty of *Final Fantasy*, *The Witcher* was definitely a good place to visit. He thought there might be a way to trigger the entry method for this script.

...

At the same time, Li Nuo was listening to the television while searching for information in front of his computer. He already knew that the nurses and doctors from the previous night had not suffered major injuries and did not remember the entire incident.

Figuring that the "Kairo-kun" must have meddled, he went back to writing materials for The Witcher with undivided attention, intending to show them to Chibai shortly.

"The Witcher..."

The door was suddenly knocked. He glanced at the time and went to look through the peephole. From the bald head alone, he could tell it was Dr. Xu.

Opening the door, Dr. Xu stood on the threshold, dressed in casual clothes.

"Uncle Xu, you didn't give me a heads-up today."
"It's fine, I..." Dr. Xu glanced into the room. The TV volume was very high.

*[Why are you wearing Pinuo's clothes, and still using other people's stuff?]*
*[Since we're chasing thrills, we might as well go all the way.]*
*[You are so slutty.]*

"Ahem... I won't go in. This is for you." Dr. Xu left an envelope with Li Nuo and went downstairs. Before walking more than two steps, he turned back and added, "I might be going away for a while. Xiao Nuo, take care of yourself."
Li Nuo: "Oh."

After Dr. Xu left, Li Nuo went back inside and opened the envelope, which contained a full ten thousand yuan.

What Li Nuo didn't know was that after last night's events concluded, all the nurses and doctors who had experienced the supernatural ghost story script inexplicably found extra money in their homes.

The most had one hundred thousand, and the least had fifty thousand.

Unlike everyone else, Dr. Xu hadn't dreamed of any magical girl. There was only one image in his dream: a slender boy, just like Li Nuo, pulling his body with strings, navigating through corners chased by danger.

Li Nuo placed the money on the table, smiled, and said, "Uncle Xu... wouldn't still remember what happened last night, would he?"