Surveillance footage from the street was posted online. Netizens saw the chainsaw maniac, cloaked in a black hooded cape, chasing the exhibitionist.
Netizens reacted with confusion (?????) before bursting into laughter.
What kind of ridiculous news is this? I suspect the chainsaw maniac was a girl who was frightened by the exhibitionist and came to take revenge. But chasing him for six blocks is really impressive!
Of course, wielding a chainsaw at night and chasing someone was terrifying. The police investigated for several days, trying to identify the person and confirm she wasn't a murderer. However, after the girl ran from outside the police station, she seemed to have disappeared, and no one was seen holding a chainsaw in other surveillance cameras.
The electric saw Song Juyao created was incredibly light and could change size. After scaring the exhibitionist, she shrunk it, pocketed it, and took off her cloak in a blind spot of the surveillance camera. Naturally, the police couldn't find her.
Besides the chainsaw, she also created a pair of shoes. While ordinary in appearance, they reduced her body weight by ten percent so she could easily pursue the exhibitionist for six blocks.
Song Juyao planned to create an invisibility cloak once she had enough points. It would make things much more convenient. When they conceptualized an item in their minds, they could sense whether they had sufficient energy. For something like an invisible cloak, it was obvious that the number of points would not be small.
The exhibitionist pervert was frightened and had a huge psychological shadow. In the following days, he continued to contribute energy for her. But it was also gradually decreasing.
So she moved on to her second target.
……
Yu Qiao walked and turned to look behind her. A man was following her from a distance. She was on the verge of a breakdown.
The price she paid for not judging people properly was so heavy. After their breakup, this lunatic kept stalking her. Reporting him to the police was useless because he didn't harm her physically, so the police could only offer a few words of caution.
For three years, rain or shine, no matter how many times she moved or changed jobs, he would always follow her like a ghost. Her family beat him up, only to be sued and forced to pay thousands of yuan in compensation.
They were completely helpless. She didn't want to involve her family further, fearing they would get into more trouble. She posted countless pleas for help online. Netizens were outraged and offered suggestions, but none of them could be used in this society ruled by law.
Driven to the brink, she was taking antidepressants. She would wake up in the middle of the night and hallucinate that he was standing by her bed, which frightened her so much that she would scream in terror. Her health deteriorated. She suffered from insomnia, teetering on the edge of collapse.
He just wanted to use this method to take revenge on her and force her to death.
She was utterly helpless.
Turning away, Yu Qiao walked towards the river, tears streaming down her face. At that moment, she only wanted to jump in and end it all.
As her hand touched the river railing and she was about to climb up, a hand gripped her shoulder.
Yu Qiao turned and saw a girl in a hooded cloak. The hood was very large and the shadow covered most of her face, making her look very mysterious.
Yu Qiao froze, and then she saw her hand stretched out from under the cloak, holding a... chainsaw??
The girl flipped the switch. The chainsaw roared to life with a terrifying, bloodthirsty sound like a beast, which scared her. Then she watched as the mysterious girl rushed towards her ex-boyfriend with the chainsaw.
The mere sight of a chainsaw is terrifying, not to mention the countless chainsaw killers in history, movies and TV shows.
The ex-boyfriend was obviously frightened. He stumbled backwards, scrambling to his feet. He turned around and crawled all the way, screaming, "Help! Murder!"
Unfortunately, it was too late. Even though there were some pedestrians on the road, no one dared to step forward when they saw someone holding a chainsaw.
Yu Qiao stood there in a daze, watching her ex-boyfriend being chased away in a panic. She wiped her tears and even forgot about wanting to jump into the river and walked home in a daze.
Song Juyao chased the ex-boyfriend for several streets until sirens wailed in the distance, she turned around and ran away.
When the police arrived, the ex-boyfriend, pale and exhausted, was hunched over a tree, vomiting. His legs were so weak that he couldn't even stand up. He looked extremely miserable.
Both furious and terrified, he reported the incident to the police, thinking that Song Juyao must have been hired by his ex-girlfriend to take revenge on him. However, the police questioned Yu Qiao and confirmed she didn't know the mysterious chainsaw wielder. Since the mysterious person with the chainsaw did not hurt him physically, his report yielded no results.
He felt frustrated. Wasn't this similar to his own stalking, which left his ex-girlfriend powerless?
Because of the excessive exercise of his legs and the excessive shock, the ex-boyfriend could not continue to follow his ex-girlfriend for several days. But he was a pervert, and after a good rest, unwilling to give up, he cleaned himself up, and continued to follow his ex-girlfriend.
However, this time, when he appeared wandering near his ex-girlfriend's company, the mysterious figure in the cloak appeared again with a chainsaw. He was chased for several streets again. This time, the buttock seam of his pants was sawed open. His buttocks even felt the sharp feeling of the chainsaw blade grazing his skin. He was so scared that he burst into tears and knelt down to beg for mercy.
"I won't stalk her anymore! Please let me go! I'm sorry! I was wrong! Waaaaah!"
With the police approaching again, Song Juyao left.
After this incident, the ex-boyfriend dared not stalk Yu Qiao again. However, Song Juyao didn't intend to let him go. This 'sheep' had nearly destroyed a girl's life and could be thoroughly 'fleeced'.
The ex-boyfriend then realized that he was being stalked by the cloaked figure. Terrified, he lived in constant fear. He called the police countless times, but it was no use.
The pain he had inflicted upon his ex-girlfriend came back upon him in a more horrific form.
……
Song Juyao didn't limit herself to the ex-boyfriend. In a city, there's no shortage of perverts and bad guys of various degrees. By terrorizing them, Song Juyao's energy points continued to increase.
Her activities became known online. Many netizens found it satisfying, hailing her as a hero, while others considered her dangerous. Some lurking in the dark grew fearful of Song Juyao, so they automatically became her servants and contributed some energy to her.
However, as the incidents repeated, people realized Song Juyao was just threatening, she didn't kill. So, the energy generated by fear began to decrease.
The amount of energy generated correlated with the intensity of a person's emotions. The mysterious chainsaw-wielding figure, no longer able to effectively terrorize the bad guys, had to retire.
At this point, Song Juyao's data panel appeared in the livestream.
Overlord: Song Juyao
Level: Lv1 (Still an apprentice Overlord!)
Energy Points: 18782 (Initial points: 15)
Creativity Level: Lv1 (Still very weak! Far from being able to call the wind and rain, but close to Lv2!)
Number of Servants: 26 (The number is growing slowly, but the quality is very high. Keep creating nightmares!)
【Amazing!】
【This season so far has been so entertaining! Seeing those bad guys crawling for their lives was so satisfying!】
【Juyao is the best! Even if she has to create nightmares, she only targets the bad guys!】
【But this setup means Song Juyao can't be too kind. Once people realize she's not truly evil, they won't be afraid of her. The energy generated by her servants has already become very little.】
【Right. Shen Fang and Su Tiantian have even formed a gang, having their servants make more servants to generate energy for them. While the quality isn't as high as Song Juyao's, they compensate with quantity. Plus, they can cooperate, with only one consuming energy to create things while the other saves. They've already surpassed Song Juyao.】
The Judgment Show had a 15-day interval between seasons. During the half-month interval between the third and fourth seasons, Liang Qiao and his team spent six days designing the script and game, then handed it over to the modeling team.
Although this team is a master who is praised by netizens, it is very difficult to create a "dominant game" in such a short time. In addition, no one knows what rules Song Juyao will make. There are countless possibilities, so this game must be very intelligent, that is, even the modeling master cannot control this game. It was equivalent to giving it life, and in the end it would grow, operate and improve on its own.
Shen Fang and Su Tiantian could only get a general idea of the game and could not fully understand the direction and the various rules of the game. But despite this, they still had many advantages over Song Juyao.
For example, they knew servants could develop more servants, as long as the negative emotions were directed at the Overlord. This allowed them to gain servants remotely, providing them with energy.
Evil spreads evil, forming a huge web of malice.
"Bam!" A baseball bat hit a middle-aged man's head and a male high school student with a bruised face and nose burst into tears.
"Dad!"
The man, bleeding profusely, collapsed to the ground. The boy, held by a group of delinquent-looking punks, pleaded with tears streaming down his face, "Don't hit my dad! I was wrong! I was wrong! I shouldn't have called the police! Please don't hit my dad!"
The boy had recently been extorted by these thugs. After they robbed him, he immediately reported them to the police. The police arrested these people, but because the amount of blackmail was not large, they only detained them for a few days. Upon their release, they retaliated, dragging him from outside school to this abandoned factory.
When his father learned that his son had been taken away, he immediately rushed over to confront these people, which led to the current scene.
There were a lot of hooligans in this abandoned factory, almost a hundred of them. Some of them were still in school uniforms, and there were people from all the surrounding schools, with different expressions as they stood on different floors looking down. Some of them couldn’t bear it but could only turn their heads away, some showed cruel smiles, and some mirrored the cruelty with numb gazes.
"The boss is here!" Someone shouted.
Everyone looked over. Shen Fang and Su Tiantian walked in from outside the factory. The girl's expression was cold and indifferent, while the boy wore a gentle but deceptive smile.
As they appeared, the system automatically displayed their data panels on the side.
Overlord: Shen Fang
Level: Lv1 (Still an apprentice Overlord!)
Energy Points: 19821 (Initial points: 15)
Creativity Level: Lv1 (Still very weak! Far from being able to call the wind and rain!)
Number of Servants: 57 (The number is growing rapidly! Keep creating nightmares!)
……
Overlord: Su Tiantian
Level: Lv1 (Still an apprentice Overlord!)
Energy Points: 1400 (Initial points: 15)
Creativity Level: Lv1 (Still very weak! Far from being able to call the wind and rain!)
Number of Servants: 39 (The number is growing rapidly! Keep creating nightmares!)
……
"What's going on?" Shen Fang asked with a smile.
"Boss, this guy just doesn't know what's good for him. The brothers were only asking for a bit of milk tea money, but he had to blow it out of proportion and turn it into a big deal."
Shen Fang looked at the middle-aged man on the ground and said calmly, "He's bleeding. Is he dead?"
The male high school student trembled all over, his heart was cold. They didn't care if they killed someone! It was so horrible! At the same time, the fear of his father's death was so strong that he begged for mercy again and again.
Shen Fang, satisfied with the energy coming from the boy, said, "I'm a forgiving person. Since you've admitted your mistake, I'll give you a chance."
"Thank you! Thank you!"
"But you have to join us."
The boy froze.
Shen Fang looked at his own and Su Tiantian's followers in the factory and said with a smile, "It's almost the end of the month, everyone should work hard. Those who don't reach the target will be punished, and those who perform well will be rewarded."
Suddenly, the factory was filled with fear, excitement, greed, and other emotions. Only the male high school student, filled with confusion, fear, and concern for his bleeding father, was at a loss.
【So disgusting!!】
【I'm so angry! Yaoyao, come and beat them up!】
【As much as I want to see these two get what they deserve, the first stage of the Overlord Game is the energy accumulation period. Fighting isn't allowed yet. The rules forbid it.】
【Don't count on Song Juyao. How can her energy gathering method compare to Shen Fang and Su Tiantian's? Evil forces are always better at generating negative emotions than the forces of good.】
【I am speechless. If Song Juyao is really kind, she should cooperate with the government. She just wants to be a god, so she is playing this game. I don’t believe she didn't see this coming.】
【Idiots shouldn't speak and reveal their lack of intelligence. Compared to the government, they're still weak. Cooperate with the government? Just wait to be monitored, studied, treated with suspicion, and ultimately hostility. Revealing your special abilities to big powers before you have the means to protect yourself is simply courting death.】
……
Summer arrived, bringing waves of heat. The college entrance exams had passed, and Song Juyao hadn't taken them.
She arrived in B City.
She had no money, but she didn't need it. She created a pill from the world of immortality. If she took one pill, she wouldn't have to eat for a month. Her invisibility cloak rendered her undetectable even by infrared, and people wouldn't bump into her, but would pass directly through her body, so she could freely take any means of transportation.
Her current points weren't enough to create flying tools. Creating the invisibility cloak had reduced her points by half. Compared to Shen Fang and Su Tiantian, she was indeed extravagant. But these were necessities.
Arriving in B City, cloaked in invisibility, she haunted the homes of the guilty, by pretending to be ghost and scare them. The more guilt-ridden, the more intense and prolonged their fear, rapidly increasing her energy.
But it was still too slow. Finding these people was time-consuming and laborious.
Moreover, the emotion of fear can only generate great energy for a short time, because human fear is time-limited, and it is impossible to be in extreme fear all the time. Excessive fear can also lead to sudden death. In short, it was a negative emotion that was not conducive to long-term development.
Song Juyao had no intention of using fear to collect energy from the beginning. But before she could begin her true plan, she needed to make some preparations. Her invisible cloak, weight-reducing shoes, etc. were all necessary items.
Now, the preparations were complete.
Song Juyao closed her eyes, using her remaining points to create what she needed. Several cards materialized before her, floating in the air, radiating a white light, adorned with intricate patterns and text.
She picked up a card and flipped it over. The light dissipated, revealing the words: One Month Lifespan.
At the same time, her points dropped to zero.
【What's this for?】
【Playing cards?】
【Confused.】
……
B City Changhai Private Hospital, part of the Changhai Group, was renowned for its cutting-edge medical technology, luxurious environment, and top-notch security. It was basically a hospital frequented by wealthy people.
The fifth VIP floor of Changhai Private Hospital was in a blocked state. The old and sick former head of the Changhai Group, Hai Wentao, was spending his final days in this ward.
Connected to a respirator, surrounded by younger generations coming and going, he was filled with reluctance to leave his family, to this world. If possible, he would like to ask God for another 500 years. He hadn't lived enough. He wanted to see his grandchildren grow up and see Changhai Group go further...
He was so unwilling to die. He hadn't lived enough…
The lights suddenly flickered.
Hai Wentao blinked his cloudy eyes, and turned his head slightly as if he sensed something.
Then, he saw a shadowy figure materialize. Cloaked in a black hooded cloak that dragged from head to the floor, with no skin visible at all.
Hai Wentao's eyes widened, he thought it was the god of death who came to take his soul, his eyes were full of fear. No, I don't want to die yet! I haven't lived enough!
"Congratulations, lucky one. I sensed your intense desire and have come before you. You want to live, right?" The 'Grim Reaper' asked, approaching his bedside. It was a gentle female voice, yet her sudden appearance cast a terrifying color on everything.
The Judgment Show viewers were intrigued. What was Song Juyao doing? She seemed to be playing some kind of trick. Was she going to do something bad?
Hai Wentao stared, stiffly managing a barely perceptible nod.
"Then let's make a deal. Are you willing to pay a sum of money to buy the destiny card?"
Hai Wentao's mind was blank at this moment. He could not think at all, let alone refuse. He just nodded stiffly.
Song Juyao waved her hand, and a ball of white light appeared in front of Hai Wentao.
The ball of light spun, and cards emitting white light flew out of it.
Hai Wentao stared at the unbelievable sight.
"Let's see what you've drawn." Song Juyao said, tapping the cards in the air with a small wooden stick.
The first card flipped over. The light vanished, leaving a transparent card with nothing on it.
"Unfortunately, the first card is blank." Song Juyao said, pointing the wooden stick at the second card.
The second card was also flipped over, the white light disappeared, and it became a transparent card, but unlike the first one, this card had patterns and words on it.
"Congratulations, you have won a fasting pill (bigu dan). If you eat one, you can be full for a month." After Song Juyao finished speaking, the card turned into a ball of white light, flew to the bedside table, and turned into a pill.
Hai Wentao's eyes rolled over, his eyes widened as if they were about to pop out.
Song Juyao tapped the third card, and Hai Wentao's gaze followed intently.
Unfortunately, the third card was blank.
The fourth card was an ordinary knife.
The fifth card was a shoe.
The sixth card was another knife.
The seventh card was blank.
The eighth and ninth cards were also blank.
The final card… Song Juyao's eyes, hidden under the hood, curved into a smile.
The tenth card flipped over.
"Congratulations! You're quite lucky. You've drawn one month of life span."
What? Hai Wentao was stunned.
At this time, the card transformed into a beam of white light and shot into his body. In an instant, he felt incredible changes taking place in his body. The decaying organs and blood vessels seemed to suddenly have some vitality, and his weak limbs seemed to have some strength.
"The transaction is complete. Goodbye." Song Juyao said, and disappeared on the spot.
Hai Wentao reached out, took off the respirator, and sat up.
Wha-What? He touched his face, then pinched himself hard. Pain shot through him, and he cried out, "Someone!"
He let out a loud cry that startled even himself.
But the bodyguards outside rushed in all of a sudden, and were stunned to see the old man sitting up and looking much better.
Hai Wentao also realized he wasn't dreaming.
He immediately looked at the bedside table. A glistening green pill rested there, next to a single shoe.
Hai Wentao stood, his breathing growing rapid, his chest heaving faster and faster. An intense desire and greed slowly ignited in his eyes.
Standing nearby, Song Juyao felt a continuous and strong energy pouring into her body.
The system displayed Song Juyao's panel for the Judgment Show viewers.
Overlord: Song Juyao
Level: Lv1 (Still an apprentice Overlord!)
Energy Points: 0…283…678…970…1667… (The numbers are rising rapidly and continuously)
Creativity Level: Lv2 (Still very weak! Far from being able to call the wind and rain, but you possess the potential of a Creator!)
Number of Servants: 36
【!!!!】
【Holy crap!!!】
【She leveled up! What are the criteria for Creativity Level?!】
【This is getting interesting. I'm dying to know what Song Juyao is going to do next!】
……
The Hai family received the call from the bodyguards and all the relatives immediately rushed to the hospital, some with red-rimmed eyes, others weeping openly.
The bodyguards said the old man suddenly had the strength to sit up, his ashen face regaining some color. Oh god, isn't this a sign of returning to light before impending death? The old man is about to pass!
Wuwuwu!!
Author's Note:
Jiang Zai who has been resurrected with full health: o(￣▽￣)ｄ
Sorry for the wait!