Chapter 242: Chapter 242 – Fleeing Ghost

Ren Suo pondered for a moment, and it quickly became clear to him—how could the free games disappear just like that?

If there really was not going to be any more free games, why would there still be a [Free Games of the Month] section?

Moreover, there were other player privileges like [Picky Player]. If no more free games would be given, would that not render such player privileges useless? Even though the Mini Worlds game console was a pain in the neck in certain aspects, it was still sensible.

Ren Suo quickly found a [?] next to the [+] symbol. He clicked on it and updated information appeared:

[Free Games of the Month are specially catered to help lower level players (levels 1 to 3) so that they are able to enjoy playing games even when they are short of merit points. As such, this benefit is no longer provided to intermediate level and higher level players for free.]

[The Free Games of the Month section remains accessible, but should intermediate level players wish to receive free games, they would be required to exchange one of the promotion event opportunities in that calendar month for one free game.]

[Free games obtained by consuming promotion event opportunities would be of the same level as the player. If the free game is of a lower level than the player’s level, the game difficulty rating and its corresponding reward would be raised to the player’s level. For example, if the free game which was drawn is a 1-star game and the player is Level 4, the free game would be upgraded to a 4-star difficulty level, and the corresponding reward would be enhanced (the game content and difficulty will be modified slightly).]

[Only one of the free games of the month can be selected, and this section will be refreshed every month.]

[Remaining promotion event opportunities for this month: Beginning of Autumn Solar Term Promotion Event, End of Heat Solar Term Promotion Event]

“I’m so poor now, can’t they continue sponsoring me?” Ren Suo lamented. Nonetheless, there was clearly no use complaining to a game console. He chose to accept it or accept it wholeheartedly.

Even though Ren Suo complained in his heart, he was actually rather satisfied with the new mechanism—originally, not all of the free games were suited to the player’s level. When Ren Suo was a Level 3 Player, he continued to encounter 1-star games, which he naturally did not pick. After all, it would be a waste if he did not choose the other option which was a 3-star game that had higher rewards.

However, after playing games that had characters like the Seeker and the Ren family, Ren Suo also found that game characters in games with fewer stars were not necessarily inferior to those in games with more stars. Some of the characters in lower-starred games even surpassed the abilities of those in higher-starred games. However, because of the associated rewards, it was unlikely for Ren Suo to pick games with lower star ratings, among the choice of free games given.

What did you say? Buy the games at their original price? That would have to wait until Ren Suo had plenty of time and merit points on his hands. Ultimately, the maximum number of merit points awarded by a game would usually not be much higher than the original price of it—that meant that it was very hard to earn more merit points than they were spent, unless he cleared the games with at least 90 points.

Furthermore, Ren Suo was also saving up his merit points to spend them in the next lucky draw. To make him spend such a huge amount of merit points… it would be tougher than tough.

As a whole, the change to the [Free Games of the Month] was beneficial for Level 4 Players. After all, points were still needed to be spent to purchase the discounted games in promotion events, and the star rating for the games would be unknown too. On the other hand, just by consuming one promotion event opportunity, he would be able to receive one free 4-star game—that was equivalent to not just obtaining a free game, but one of high quality.

The only downside was that Ren Suo would not be able to choose which game he wanted to play, and neither could he pick one out of two options. Nonetheless, that was an acceptable trade-off compared to the greater benefits.

The next question was which promotion event opportunity he should choose to give up, but there was naturally very little for Ren Suo to consider—of course, he would choose the Beginning of Autumn Solar Term Promotion Event, for the Beginning of Autumn was on August 7, while the End of Heat was on August 23rd.

It was highly likely that Ren Suo would have cleared the game by the 23rd of August, but that was not the case before the 7th. If Ren Suo had not cleared a game by the day of the promotion event, it meant that he would still only have 60 merit points, and he might not be able to buy any of the promotional games…

Clicking on the [+] symbol, he chose to consume the [Beginning of Autumn Solar Term Promotion Event]. Then, Ren Suo saw a picture of maple leaves starting to rotate. Flashes of thunder and lightning suddenly appeared on the screen, and it felt as if goods were being shipped!

Although there was a high chance that the free game was a game with fewer stars, it was also possible that the game was a high-starred game—when he was still a Level 3 Player, Ren Suo had come across 4-star games several times!

The picture slowly stopped turning, and a white streak of lightning appeared at the top edge of it. The streak slowly elongated downwards to reveal what was underneath, much like what would be seen in various lucky draw mobile games.

Then, the scene on the screen turned into that of a serene, dark night. There was only one stall along the street, emitting some light—it looked like a mobile food stall.

All of a sudden, the incandescent lights began flickering, and the background of the night in the distance turned from serene to eerie! A visible fog suddenly crept in from all directions, as if it were conscious, and on the seats of the food stall sat a few creatures that were either transparent or strange-looking!

[Fleeing Ghosts in the Night]

[This is a supernatural economic simulation adventure game. “Fleeing ghosts” is a term originally used to describe mobile streetside stalls which vendors operated in the night as their livelihood. In this era, the term has now been given a new meaning: In the middle of the night, customers who hide themselves within the shadows of the city would emerge. The player will take on the role of the stall owner who controls desires and provide a sumptuous meal which is able to satisfy these customers from the city within 10 days. The maximum reward is 325 merit points, and the specialized reward for clearing the game is ‘Detection of Desires’. In-game purchases are available. The difficulty rating of the game is: 4 stars.]

It was the first time that Ren Suo had seen all three tags “supernatural”, “economic simulation”, and “adventure” together to describe a game…

The game description was extremely intriguing. It appeared to be a supernatural-related game, but it did not seem to involve fighting. It was not possible to tell what exactly the game was about based on the description.

The only thing Ren Suo could understand was the term “fleeing ghosts”. It was not referring to the stall owner, which was the role of the player, but instead referred to the hardcore customers.

However, Ren Suo did not hesitate and directly chose to play that game—he did not intend to consume his [End of Heat Solar Term Promotion Event] as well.

Ren Suo was completely at ease when he saw the keywords “in-game purchases are available”—his player privilege [Seizing All Opportunities] was not in vain. Although he only had 60 merit points left, that was almost certainly sufficient for him to clear the game by making in-app purchases with his player privilege!

The game was downloaded very quickly. Ren Suo, who had already completed the sleep he needed over the past few days, equipped himself with [Hat of Cultivation and Practice] and [Jade Pendant of the Goddess of River Luo], then entered the game.

The opening CG was from a first-person perspective. A figure who seemed to be a person wearing a scarf was walking on a dimly lit road with the street lights located far away, and not a single car appeared on the road.

‘He’ was pushing a mobile food cart along the dimly lit road. Then, ‘he’ stopped and began to set up the stall. ‘He’ took out the chairs, started the power box, arranged the ingredients, prepared the kitchenware, then hung up a sign on his stall, facing outwards toward the customers.

When all of that was done, ‘he’ clapped his hands, then sat down and began to read the newspaper.

At that juncture, the clicking of high heels was heard, and the sound of the footsteps came nearer. ‘He’ looked up and saw a person whose body was completely concealed by a black trench coat in front of the food stall.

“He” placed the newspaper down and smiled. ‘He’ said, “Welcome.”

The person in the black trench coat slowly looked up, and the camera also zoomed in closer, and closer, and closer. Who exactly was the person in the trench coat—

[Begin Ghost Fleeing] [Continue Ghost Fleeing] [Resign]

“I can choose to resign?” Ren Suo laughed as he selected [Begin Ghost Fleeing].

Then, a world map appeared on the screen in front of him.

[Please select the city in which you wish to begin Ghost Fleeing.]