Although She’s Only a Level 1 Noob, She’s Still Incredibly Powerful - Chapter 2

In the live broadcast room, barrages crossed the screen.

[Fatal Play has been online for half a year, why are there still level 1 players, this ……]

[Level 30 copy, level 1 rookie, doesn’t make any sense.]

[Looking so pretty, She’s a rice bug, right.]

Rice bug refers to a player that only knows how to rely on others and doesn’t know how to rely on itself.

After the App goes live, the appropriate survival coupons will be deducted at dawn every day.

If you want to survive until the next day, you must ensure you have a sufficient balance.

After the survival coupons accumulated to a certain amount, they could make a one-time payment and completely break away from the App’s control.

Coupled with the fact that all food had disappeared and edible crops had turned into poisonous trees and grasses, people’s food needed to be exchanged for survival coupons as well.

So even though it wasn’t mandatory to enter the copy, people had to take risks for the sake of the survival coupons.

The death rate was extremely high, and there were always some people who would rather sell their body for survival coupons than enter a copy for various reasons.

Once a rice bug appeared in a copy, it meant a drag and a troublemaker.

[Annoying, there are rice bugs in the copies, the reference value of the live broadcast has become lower.]

[How come she didn’t turn on the camera?]

[It’s best if she didn’t open it, I wasted my precious survival coupon to watch Mo Jie.]

[Damn, who was that outside the door just now, why didn’t he turn on the camera too.]

[Don’t even think about it. A top 200 ranked person can just open the camera for you? Just wait for him to enter the someone else’s own.]

By watching others play and summarising the rules, you can improve your chances of survival when playing that profession yourself.

Mo Jie had gained a lot of loyal viewers due to his steady operation and the fact that he was at 1681 in the overall rankings.

This copy had just started and the live broadcast room already had over 2,000 viewers.

Hearing that there was a top 200 ranked god in the copy, the number of people in the live broadcast room instantly skyrocketed by another three thousand or so.

The live broadcast room was opened in the form of a copy, and players only needed to open their own cameras to split the traffic revenue.

The more viewers on anyone’s lens, the higher his earnings.

At the end of a live broadcast, the traffic earnings plus the rewards were a sizable amount of survival coupons.

The camera function wasn’t turned on after System 09 disconnected from the main god. So Bai Qiuye didn’t even know that this was a way of obtaining survival coupons.

However, Mo Jie and the others had already noticed that the earnings were much higher than just now.

The experienced ones immediately understood that the number of viewers in the live broadcast room had climbed just now.

Mo Jie,”They’re rushing towards that Great God.”

The rest nodded.

“Definitely.” The hairband man turned his head to Bai Qiuye and snorted coldly, It was impossible to come for this rookie anyway.

Bai Qiuye sniffed and broke out in a cold sweat.

Why was this hairband man deliberately looking at her.

Was he preparing to harm her.

The thoughts that surged through her mind made Bai Qiuye terrified, looking a little pitiful.

Seeing this, the woman in white took the initiative to ask her, “My name is Fu Yao, what’s your name?”

Bai Qiuye replied, “My name is Bai Qiuye.”

“You might as well be called Bai Huo.” The hairband man sneered, “Annoying, I hate having a rookie and a holy mother in the team.”

“Who are you calling a holy mother?” Fu Yao said, “Brother Jie didn’t say anything, are you going to overstep your boundaries?”

Mo Jie humbly waved his hand, “Oh, We were all newcomers at the start, be more tolerant. Also, everyone is equal, overstepping one’s boundaries or something, don’t say it again in the future.”

Fu Yao repeatedly said yes.

Bai Qiuye seemed to stay out of it, coldly watching their interactions.

At this time, footsteps from outside the house interrupted the argument, and a woman carrying a dustpan entered the house.

She was wearing a white mourning dress, and the dustpan in her hand contained persimmon cakes sprinkled with white frost.

The persimmon cakes were brightly coloured but looked inexplicably false.

“An employer?”

Several people were lowering their voices to discuss, when Bai Qiuye subconsciously raised her hand to take the dustpan from her.

Mo Jie and the others were all stunned.

What was she doing.

Why did she have to pick up this kind of unclear thing.

There are some things that will kill you if you touch them!

She was indeed a rookie.

Bai Qiuye hugged the dustpan and cursed herself in her mind.

Thirteen years, nearly five thousand cycles, The habit has become natural.

Widow Du’s gaze stopped on Bai Qiuye for two seconds, a trace of confusion flashing in her eyes.

“Thank you.”

Everyone’s pupils trembled.

The employer was the most important NPC in the dungeon. The lives of the players depended on the employer to a large extent.

As long as the employer could reveal more about the rules of the profession, their survival rate would greatly increase.

Half a year ago, everyone was still a newbie.

Many people wanted to curry favor with their employers, but they overreached themselves, and their subsequent encounters were extremely tragic and terrifying.

Therefore, people came to the conclusion that it was impossible to improve the favorability of the employer.

However, this was the first time they had heard an employer say thank you to a player.

‘She actually managed to do something that no one else could,’ Mo Jie thought to himself. ‘Only an inexperienced person like her would stumble upon something by accident.’

“These are snacks for you.” Widow Du said, “I’ll have to trouble you tonight.”

Other than Bai Qiuye, the others didn’t dare to touch the red persimmon.

“There’s no need …” Mo Jie asked, “What’s our job?”

“My husband, Du Youfu, just died.” Widow Du said, “He’s upstairs.”

The look of indifference on her face sent shivers down the spine of the crowd.

“Come upstairs with me.” Widow Du turned towards the upstairs.

The narrow corridor on the first floor connected two bedrooms and a study.

Widow Du pushed open one of the doors labelled with a red wedding inscription, only to see a huge wedding photo hanging on the wall.

But the photo was not an artistic photo, nor was it a wedding registration photo with a red background.

The location of the photo seemed to be a courtyard, the two newlyweds were sitting on benches, and behind them was an open bungalow, the black tiles looked especially oppressive.

The woman was wearing a red veil and a red coat, covering her face tightly. Her only exposed fingers were pale and slender.

The man had round eyes and a square face, his expression was wooden, his eyes were dull, and he seemed to be a little unfocused.

He wore a large red flower, which made his face look even more sallow.

Although the two were sitting side by side, they could not feel any newlywed joy.

The crowd’s eyes paused on the photo for a few seconds before it fell onto the double bed in the room.

The man in the photo was lying flat on the bed. A red candle burning on the bedside table illuminated his face.

His eyelids were rolled upwards, his eyes were cloudy, his skin was vaguely blue underneath, and his chest didn’t rise or fall.

“He will need to rest in his coffin for three days, and on the third day I will tell you where the burial will take place that night. During this time you will need to prepare for the burial.” Widow Du handed over a black envelope, her pale fingers tucked into her sleeves, “This is what you will be working on tomorrow, you must wait until the early hours of the morning to open it.”

Fu Yao asked, “If we open it earlier–”

Widow Du slowly turns her head, her expression grim, “As long as you want to.”

Fu Yao: “……”

Totally do not want to.

Mo Jie asked tentatively, “Is there anything we need to be careful of?”

“Are you not a professional funeral team, why are you asking me?” Widow Du said, “I’ve already explained things to you guys, see you in two days.”

She left the first floor after saying that.

At this time, a prompt popped up on everyone’s terminals.

[You have become a funeral practitioner.]

[During work:]

[1. Please do not attack your employer.]

[2. Please do not attempt to leave your job.]

[3. Please do your best to provide quality service to your employer.]

[If you violate the rules, you will be responsible for the consequences.]

[At the end of the job, the employer will grade you.]

Looking at these lines and the black envelope left behind by Widow Du, the crowd had a heavy heart.

“It seems like we can’t ask anything from her.” Mo Jie said, “Have the rest of you watched the live broadcast of the funeral practitioners?”

“Yes.” The silent boy named Liu He spoke up.

“What was the result?”

“The group was destroyed.”

Mojie held his breath, “…… Liu He, try to remember how they died then?”

“The copy was a funeral parlour.” Liu He said, “On the first night they died.”

“And the cause?”

“Ghost possession, They died a violent death.” Liu He said, and then shut up.

Upon hearing this, the panic in the hearts of the crowd increased quite a bit.

“If only that great god was there just now, he could open the ghost’s head with an iron bucket.” The blue-clothed woman said, “And I wonder where he went?”

“He must have his own purpose for coming to this instance.” Mo Jie said. “He is not your bodyguard.”

These people had completely forgotten how they had licked him before and turned their hopes to someone who hadn’t even shown his face.

A kind of jealousy and inferiority complex that even he didn’t notice gradually rose in Mo Jie’s heart, and he couldn’t help but pour cold water on the crowd.

Bai Qiuye: “…”

It was at this moment that the hairband man suddenly let out a piercing shriek.

He pointed at the bed, “It’s moving, the corpse is moving!”

The crowd looked over, and at the small abdomen of the corpse, there was a bulge gradually rising in the abdomen as if he was pregnant.

The corpse’s eyes were open, gazing straight at the crowd, He was clearly dead, but his belly was still writhing.

Mo Jie said in a deep voice, “Calm down, don’t do anything rash.”

As his words fell, he saw Bai Qiuye walk over to the corpse, one hand reaching into the quilt.

Mo Jie: “What are you doing?!”

Bai Qiuye withdrew her arm, the abdomen of the corpse instantly flattened, a cat covered in pitch black was picked up by her neck, and its four claws were clawing around in the air.

“I’ve heard of a saying that a corpse is startled by a cat’s meow.” Bai Qiuye said, “When a recently deceased corpse hears a cat’s meow, it will sit up.”

Her words made the others shudder.

One after another, they remembered that they had heard such a rumour before.

This house just had a death and a black cat had crawled under the covers. They did not believe it was a coincidence.

“In the copy of the Funeral parlour, there was also a cat that meowed.” Liu He said.

And then the copy was over.

If Bai Qiuye hadn’t controlled that cat, they were afraid that they would have been dead tonight as well.

The crowd didn’t expect to be saved by a level 1 rookie.

“Don’t look at me with that grateful look.” Bai Qiuye hurriedly brushed it off, “I just happened to see it.”

Mo Jie gently suggested, “There’s still an hour before we can open the envelope, so the girls can go back to the ground floor. The others will search the house with me.”

Everyone agreed, even if they diagreed there was nothing they could do.

Bai Qiuye was a bit distracted.

She had been to this house thousands of times and knew it as her own home, so there was really no need to explore it.

She carried the cat and followed Fu Yao and the rest downstairs.

Bai Qiuye was wearing a spotless dress with a collar button made of rubies, and the black cat was lying on her lap with its belly exposed, seemingly being comfortably stroked by her.

Zhong Ying looked at Bai Qiuye’s clean and delicate black dress with jealousy.

How could an average person have the heart to dress themselves up, especially in a copy, it was all about how convenient the cloth was.

She looked down at her own blue sportwear whose cuffs were all frayed, remembering that half a year ago, she was also a little princess. Now, in order to survive, How could one pay so much attention.

Obviously she is at level 22, but this instantly felt like she was being compared to Bai Qiuye who was only level 1.

Even the cat preferred Bai Qiuye and didn’t look at her the entire time.

Fu Yao suddenly said, “I’ve heard that black cats can see ghosts and act as alarm bells. Maybe this cat is a special prop in the copy.”

Zhong Ying couldn’t help but sniff even more.

“Bai Qiuye, give me the cat to hold for a while.”

Bai Qiuye’s movement of stroking the black cat gave a start, “No, it will get angry.”

Zhong Ying said dissatisfiedly, “Didn’t you hold it without it screaming?”

Not only did it not scream, it had already started to snore.

“But–”

“I used to have three cats, and they all loved me. Besides, even if it wants to scream, it can’t be heard upstairs.”

After she finished speaking, she reached her hand over to hug the cat.

Before she could touch the black cat’s fur, a loud and clear cat cry ran through the room.

The black cat violently jumped from Bai Qiuye’s lap to the table, its teeth bared as it looked at Zhong Ying.

At the same time, a cry came from the first floor.

It was like the rattling sound of a broken tape.

Bai Qiuye looked up to the ceiling.

Oh no.

The three of them rushed upstairs together, and Mo Jie came out of the bedroom, spluttering, “Did you guys see the body?”

Zhong Ying asks with a trembling voice, “Wasn’t the body in the bedroom?”

“It’s gone.”

“We just went to another room to look for clues, we heard a cat scream and rushed back, and the body was gone.” Mo Jie’s face was grave, “Why did the cat scream so loudly?”

Fu Yao turned her head to look at Zhong Ying.

Zhong Ying fearfully excused herself, “Bai Qiuye, I didn’t even touch it, did you pinch it?”

The hairband man looked at Bai Qiuye with displeasure, and cursed when he got the chance, “Why didn’t you keep an eye on the cat?!”

“Meow~” a delicate soft cat cry rang out, very different from the mournful cry just now.

The black cat came over at some point and intimately rubbed its head against Bai Qiuye’s leg, completely unlike the way it had just been pinched by her.

“This cat, it’s quite generous, huh…” Zhong Ying had just finished speaking when the black cat opened its teeth and claws towards her, letting out a low whistle of attack.

Bai Qiuye squatted down and reached out to scratch the cat’s chin, she had long since figured out the cat’s temperament in her thirteen years.

It was clear who was right and who was wrong.

“Zhong Ying… you explain it.”

Zhong Ying dropped a few tears, “I really didn’t touch it.”

The hairband man coughed, “There’s not much time, let’s go find the body, it’s not good if we can’t find it.”

“Didn’t you just want to settle a score with me, why is there no time for a different person.” Bai Qiuye stood up and said, “It can’t be because I’m only level 1 that I’m treated differently.”

The hairband man’s face turned red, “I was just being tongue-tied for a moment, finding the corpse is the important thing, so don’t mess around.”

Bai Qiuye said righteously, “Okay, I’ll let it go if you two apologise.”

Zhong Ying: “On what grounds, I didn’t touch the cat!”

The hairband man was laughed at, “…… You think you can really threaten us?”

Seeing this, Bai Qiuye decided to add some drama, “The expert who killed the ghost outside just now-”

The others sucked in a breath of cold air and instantly tensed up, “What?”

Bai Qiuye: “Said that he can do me a favour.”

Mo Jie immediately turned his head to Zhong Ying and the hairband man, “We’re all on the same boat when we enter the same copy. It doesn’t matter what level Bai Qiuye is, she didn’t do anything wrong just now apologise.”

The hairband man’s lips moved, he wanted to say how unlikely the expert could possibly talk to Bai Qiuye, but even if there was a one-in-a-million chance that Bai Qiuye would let the expert come and kill him, he definitely wouldn’t survive.

This risk could not be taken.

He spoke with difficulty, “Yes, I’m sorry.”

Zhong Ying also blushed profusely and apologised with difficulty, “What happened just now  was indeed because I… made the cat scream.”

Bai Qiuye smiled and stroked the cat’s head without saying a word, her expression smug and quite a bit villainous.

In reality she was thinking.

These people seemed to be really scared of her fictionalised person, and heartily believed that it was a truly great god.

‘Could it be that… they really don’t know that the ghost at the door is only level 1. Why is that… could it be that they thought it was a powerful copy? Did they encounter a bug?!”

She thought she was the only one who would encounter a bug!

At that moment, System 09 said in a mechanical voice.

[It’s impossible for a bug to target only you.]

[You don’t have such qualifications to be targeted by the lord god.]

09’s words confirmed Bai Qiuye’s suspicions.

‘No wonder they are acting timid, they are obviously strong but they don’t dare to make a move.’ She thought to herself.

Mo Jie was slightly relieved to see that Bai Qiuye didn’t mention that expert again, “Let’s us go and look for the the corpse, we must find the body before dawn.”

The others knew the seriousness of the matter and nodded.

At this time, Liu He suddenly spoke, “No need.”

The position he was standing in could just about see inside the bedroom, and right now he was raising his hand and pointing in the direction of the bed.

“How is it possible, it was not there just now, and there’s no window in the bedroom-”

Mo Jie’s voice came to an abrupt end as he saw the body that had disappeared return to the bed. Only this time, its head was facing the door, its feet were facing the wall, its neck was folded back, and it seemed to be looking at them from an odd angle.

And, there was an additional figure next to the corpse –

It was a lying paper man.

A shrill laugh rang out, and the paper man unexpectedly turned into ashes.

It was as if something cold and gloomy had invaded the bodies of the people, like several sharp spikes, hanging above their hearts.

At the same time, they all received the same prompt.

[Congratulations, you’ve triggered the curse – Paperization.]

[Every 1 hour, your body will gradually paper over.]

[When the degree of paperization reaches 100%, you will lose consciousness.]

[Current paperization level: 10%]