All players: I can choose my own dungeon rewards.

"Hermit? What hermit?"

The information notification that appeared in front of him suddenly made Wang Zhifan, who was still on his way, confused.

He totally couldn't understand why he suddenly got this title. The introduction said that the NPCs gave him this title, which made him think that it must be related to the people he had just let go.

"I beat up a flying ghost before and almost got the title of 'breaking up a couple', and now a 'hermit' suddenly pops up...

It seems that it is easy to obtain titles in this instance. It doesn’t matter. It is better to have some effect than nothing.”

Unable to figure out the key, Wang Zhifan was too lazy to pay attention to it. He used his lightness skills to pass through the land of dead souls in the dark night and went to the second important target that he had discovered before.

Based on his experience in solving the first target just now, it can be inferred that he should have good results in the second target.

After all, he got one epic and three excellences at the first target, which was enough to complete many dungeons.

In terms of the number of rewards, he felt that this Dead Souls dungeon was very generous. He had obtained many pieces of equipment in less than a day.

The only downside is that the attributes of the equipment here are rather specialized, all related to ghosts and the supernatural, which is not very practical for him.

As he was on his way, Wang Zhifan found that his AI Xiaohong emerged from his smartwatch and spoke:
"Master, I have found many illogical errors in my statistics. I suspect my system has been affected by an unknown virus. I hope you can help format and restart the system."

"Is that true? What's the mistake?"

Wang Zhifan became curious when he heard this. He didn’t think that the advanced AI from the urban planet would be so prone to problems. There must be another hidden story.

"Master, these are a large number of statistical errors that violate basic science. I received them through external sensors, but I cannot interpret them normally because they all conflict with known laws..."

AI Xiaohong began to explain and gave several prominent examples, allowing Wang Zhifan to gradually understand what the problem was.

To put it simply, AI Xiaohong just recorded and analyzed all of Wang Zhifan's experiences, including his instant kills of various ghosts and monsters, and his battles with NPCs and zombies in the underground palace. This led to a serious problem, that is, coming from an urban planet, it could not understand the existence of the mysterious side at all, and thought that there was confusion in its own data, which led to self-doubt.

For example, it could not understand the ghosts it encountered before, because ghosts did not conform to the basic laws of physics at all.

For example, when Wang Zhifan used a protective golden light covering his smart watch during the battle, it could not understand what physical phenomenon it was because it violated many basic definitions of optics.

The occurrence of this situation is enough to show that Xiaohong's intelligence level is very high. If it was just a mechanical program without independent thinking, it would definitely not have this kind of trouble. It would just record all the external input, and if it could not analyze it, it would report an error and go on strike on the spot.

The fact that it has been waiting until now to speak out shows that it has gone through a lot of re-analysis and used various data analysis models, but only came to Wang Zhifan for help after all these efforts were unsuccessful.

Wang Zhifan certainly would not format and restart as required, as that would not have any effect at all. He thought about it and said to Xiaohong:
"Xiaohong, in fact, the data you collected are all correct, and the external sensors of the smart watch are also normal. The reason why you can't understand it is because you underestimate the mystery and diversity of the universe.

The universe is extremely vast, and our known scientific knowledge is far from covering its full picture. Just like we are now in a galaxy extremely far away from the urban planet, the physical laws here are quite different from those on the urban planet..."

With a combination of magic and ironclad facts, Wang Zhifan quickly made AI Xiaohong update its basic cognition and realize that there was no problem with its program, but rather that there had been major changes in the external environment.

As an advanced artificial intelligence, Xiaohong has a notable feature, which is that it can continuously improve itself instead of rigidly following the inherent data. So it finally said to Wang Zhifan:
"Captain, I have great faith in your judgment, so I have decided to enter the self-study mode in the coming period and rebuild my understanding of the outside world..."

Wang Zhifan immediately praised his decision. This was something he was happy to see. After Xiaohong's self-study and learning, perhaps she could not only contribute in the technological world, but also help him in the mysterious world.

This little episode passed quickly, and AI Xiaohong stopped talking and focused on analyzing and learning the data it had obtained, while Wang Zhifan continued on his journey steadily.

Along the way, he discovered many evil creatures lurking in the dark, but just like before, these ghosts were reluctant to approach him, perhaps because they were dissuaded by the terrifying aura he exuded.

He didn't want to get rid of everything he saw, because he knew that ordinary ghosts would not produce good equipment, so he might as well pick high-quality ones.

After a while, he arrived at his second target in the dark, which was the brightly lit house standing in the wasteland that he had discovered through shamanism.

At that time, a silhouette of a woman combing her hair could be seen on the window paper of the house. Now the image of the woman has disappeared, but outside the house two groups of players can be seen confronting each other, seemingly in conflict over the ownership of this haunted residence.

There were four people on one side and three people on the other side of the conflict. All of them looked yellow-skinned Asians. Wang Zhifan could tell at a glance that the three people were the Xia group that had invited him to join the team. He only had a vague impression of the four people, who should be part of the players who appeared in Xiaohe Village at that time.

"Xia people! This place belongs to our great Han country! If you don't get out of here, we will kill you all!"

The person who was shouting was a tall, thin young man in a suit with small eyes. From the way he spoke, we could tell that he was from Han country. The other three people standing next to him were also from Han country. This was a group of Han players.

However, facing the threat from the Han people, the three people from the Xia country were not willing to be outdone. Although they had one less person than the other side, they were not inferior in momentum at all, and even had a vague urge to start a war.

"Han Country bastards! We were the first to discover this place! Come on if you want to fight! Let's see who can survive to the end!"

As the two sides exchanged insults, the tension between the two sides grew stronger, with each side drawing their swords and sharpening their weapons.

Until an uninvited guest suddenly appeared and walked towards the brightly lit haunted house as if no one was around, attracting their attention.

This person was naturally Wang Zhifan. He didn't care that there were players arguing here. He just wanted to kill monsters and get equipment.

"court death!"

"Kill this bastard first!"

Naturally, the people on both sides could not stand by and watch the precious land being occupied by a third party, so they immediately launched an attack.

The first round of attacks came from the gunner players on both sides. Multiple bullets attacked Wang Zhifan's back from two directions, but it seemed that all of them missed and did not stop Wang Zhifan from approaching the haunted house.

"Is that the lone wolf player? Stop first!"

The young leader of the Xia Kingdom immediately recognized Wang Zhifan.

He had just focused on the four players from the Han Country and didn't dare to relax. Now that the two sides had reached a brief united front, he was able to see clearly that the person who walked out in the dark was someone they had communicated with in Xiaohe Village, so he asked his two companions to stop immediately. "I can't stop now. This guy is a bit weird. My bullets can't get close to him at all."

Another young player from Xia country who had just fired a shot continued with a serious expression, maintaining the posture of aiming and shooting.

"As expected, the lone wolf is quite capable...but he is too arrogant. He doesn't even take all of us seriously."

The third female player from Xia country followed suit and gave her comments, but the strange thing was that her voice did not come from the original place, but from another vague location, which showed that what she left at the original place was just a false image.

"Aning, don't worry about him for now! Pay more attention to the Han people! This lone wolf is still of great use!"

The young leader then spoke, reminding the assassin players in the group not to test Wang Zhifan and to understand the current focus of prevention.

"Haha... I can choose not to go, but the Han country guys have already taken action."

A response from the real female player soon came through the air, indicating that the four Han people had launched a second round of attack on Wang Zhifan who came to steal the monster.

At this moment, two of the four players from the Han country had disappeared, and only a gunman and a mage were keeping a close eye on the Xia country group.

At this time, Wang Zhifan walked to a distance of ten meters from the gate of the haunted house. He estimated that if he got any closer, it would cause a reaction from the ghosts in the house.

But some people didn't want him to go in so easily, even though he had just easily withstood many bullets.

Just as he took the next step, a long, thin white cloth appeared out of thin air and swept towards him at an astonishing speed, trying to wrap around his body.

He immediately noticed the enemy's attack, but seemed to have failed to react in time. In the blink of an eye, he was tightly wrapped in white cloth and fixed in place like a mummy.

At the same time, a hundred meters away from where he was, a Han man was hiding in the darkness obscured by the walls of the house, holding a doll in both hands. The image of the doll was very similar to Wang Zhifan, who was wrapped like a mummy.

The eyes of this Han countryman were wide open, and he seemed to be exerting his utmost strength, trying to strangle the puppet in his hand to death with all his might.

Another Han man appeared next to Wang Zhifan, who was wrapped in white cloth like a mummy. The moment he appeared, he stabbed Wang Zhifan's neck with a dagger and coordinated with his companion who was a hundred meters away.

Wang Zhifan seemed to have no ability to break free from the restraints on his body, and the sharp dagger instantly pierced his neck.

However, the attacking assassin's eyes suddenly focused, and he quickly became invisible and evacuated.

The assassin's expression was because he noticed something was wrong.

Specifically, after he hit Wang Zhifan's neck, he found that not only did no blood flow out, but there was no real feeling of it either. It was like he hit the air, which meant that their attack had failed.

"what!!!"

Just as the Han Country assassin player was retreating, a scream pierced the darkness.

Everyone looked towards the source of the scream and discovered that the sound suddenly came from a place blocked by the wall of the house.

If someone happened to be there, they would find that Wang Zhifan, who was wrapped in white cloth like a mummy in the outside world's view, actually appeared in this place at this time and was putting his sword back into the sheath.

Next to Wang Zhifan was a Han Chinese man who had been stabbed in the chest and was lying on the ground in a pool of blood. His eyes had lost the color of life.

"If you shoot me, that's fine. I can forgive you once, but if you insist on provoking me a second time, don't blame me for being ruthless."

While talking nonchalantly, Wang Zhifan bent down, picked up the puppet that the Han country player had just thrown away, and read the relevant information about it.

【Deadly Puppet No. 6 (Rare)】

[This is the 6th in the Deadly Puppet series. Using it, you can completely bind the designated target within 150 meters with white cloth in a very short time. This ability can be used up to 3 times a day, and each time lasts for a maximum of 6 seconds.

The white cloth is difficult to destroy and break free from the inside, but it can be penetrated from the outside and inflict damage from the inside.

The restraints are strong enough to suppress most humanoid enemies, but are less effective against non-humanoid enemies.

After restraining the target, you can increase the pressure on the target by manually squeezing the puppet.

The force you exert on the puppet will be transferred to the target through the white cloth at 7 times the effect. If you have enough strength, you can crush the target into pieces. 】

"Interesting. This thing looks more suitable for me according to the instructions."

After quickly reading the instructions of the puppet, Wang Zhifan suddenly pointed the thing at somewhere in the darkness and activated the binding skill.

There seemed to be nothing there, but white cloth appeared out of thin air and wrapped around the shape of a human body at an extremely fast speed, indicating that the deadly puppet's binding skill was successfully activated.

"It really suits me. For example, my perception is very convenient for determining the position of invisible enemies."

The person he bound was none other than the assassin player from the Han country who had quietly returned to check on his partner's condition after failing to cooperate. But when this person came back, by chance, he was used by Wang Zhifan to experiment with his newly acquired puppet skills.

As Wang Zhifan pinched the puppet in one hand and increased the strength, a teeth-grinding squeezing sound appeared in the air, coming from the Han country assassin who was wrapped like a mummy.

His strength was so strong that even with one hand it was far beyond what an ordinary player could do with both hands. After being amplified seven times by the deadly puppet, this poor Han country assassin player was instantly crushed into minced meat mixed with broken bones.

"Good boy, I crushed all his equipment... But the equipment that can be destroyed so easily is definitely not good, so let it be broken."

After casually testing his skills, Wang Zhifan remembered that he had destroyed his own spoils. After all, his strength was enhanced by the puppet and was very terrifying. It was definitely not something that could withstand the attack of high-level equipment.

But he didn't care much. After picking up the equipment he was interested in, he headed towards the gate of the haunted house again. (End of this chapter)