As expected, the organizer's electronic voice arrived at midnight.
"Hello everyone on Earth, congratulations on passing the first stage of the assessment."
"Yes, that's right. The first phase. Tomorrow you will be heading to a new place to begin a new journey."
"As for the next game, let's call it Waterside Cliff for now. You can probably guess the game's setting from that name."
"Don't worry about the time. You will be teleported to the next game world at 8:00 AM this morning. I will give you plenty of time to sleep."
"The rules of the next game world are the same as this one, so don't worry. You are no longer the newbies you were back then. You have more survival skills and abilities."
"There's just one difference: the next game world will last for 12 days, isn't that an interesting number?"
"So here I wish my friends with parking spaces a good night's sleep, and of course, I also wish all the people of Earth without parking spaces the same way."
When Shen Muyu heard the last sentence, she felt something was wrong. For those who didn't have a parking space, she guessed the real test was about to begin.
From the screen, Shen Muyu saw that the man in the car in front of him had started the car and was scanning around, probably noticing something amiss in his words.
Shen Muyu tapped the screen to switch between different perspectives, wanting to see what the organizers were up to.
Just as Shen Muyu was about to switch to the next camera angle, she suddenly realized something was wrong. Why was there someone slumped over the steering wheel in the car on the left? Wasn't that an empty car?
Shen Muyu zoomed in on the screen to try and see the person next to her clearly, but the next second she felt a churning in her stomach.
The person slumped over the steering wheel seemed to be pressed down by a tremendous force, his hands bracing against the dashboard as he tried to sit up.
In the midst of this confrontation, the man's face was literally torn off.
Perhaps sensing Shen Muyu's gaze, the person turned to look at Shen Muyu's car. Even though there was a layer of clothing between them, Shen Muyu still felt that gaze on her face.
Without the cover of skin, and with the spasm of the subcutaneous muscles, the man's bloodied face twitched involuntarily, and his bulging eyes stared unblinkingly at Shen Muyu through the screen.
Shen Muyu subconsciously tilted her head, and when she looked at the screen again, the person had a smile on their face. They even mischievously tugged at the protruding eyeballs with their hands, and the black part in the middle was turned away.
Shen Muyu noticed the man's amused expression, so this time she didn't dodge. She just stared at the screen expressionlessly, though she had already silently vomited several times in her mind.
Perhaps feeling bored, the man turned away dejectedly, opened the door beside him, and went downstairs.
The owner of the car in front of Shen Muyu noticed the commotion beside him and, upon seeing the approaching person, shakily released the brake and drove off.
The man who had lost his face wasn't in a hurry. He just walked slowly down the road, blood flowing continuously from his wound, as if it would never stop.
As he passed by the car, he took a moment to greet Shen Muyu through the windshield.
Shen Muyu only breathed a sigh of relief after the person had walked away. That bloody, mangled face was really physically disturbing, and she might even have a nightmare about it that night.
The sounds of vehicles starting up began to come from all directions. From other perspectives, Shen Muyu discovered that many strange creatures had broken away from the empty cars and were searching for their targets.
Seeing that there was nothing to see, Shen Muyu had Xiao A set an alarm and then casually stuffed a wad of paper into his ear and fell asleep. The sounds of car crashes and screams that were rising and falling all around gradually faded away.
The next morning at seven o'clock, Shen Muyu woke up to Xiao A's calls.
After rubbing his dry eyes, Shen Muyu turned his gaze to the screen.
The eeriness seemed to have vanished; their figures were completely invisible outside the car, and there wasn't even a sound. The silence was unsettling.
Several cars were parked haphazardly on the side road, and without exception, the owners were nowhere to be seen. However, through the car windows, it could be seen that the interiors were very clean, with no strange bloodstains or skin tissue.
The car on the left remained quietly in place. If it weren't for that face still stuck to the steering wheel, Shen Muyu would have almost thought he was dreaming.
The burly man across from them was still asleep, his feet propped up on the control panel. Shen Muyu was worried that his legs would go numb because of the lack of blood flow in his legs.
After avoiding those graphic scenes, Shen Muyu went to the trunk and quickly washed up.
After heating up a few steamed buns from the refrigerator, Shen Muyu ate a simple breakfast with milk.
Big White was probably still a bit sleepy; when he was eating the special unseasoned version of steamed buns, his head almost fell into the basin.
Shen Muyu smiled and patted its head, then shooed it back to its seat to rest, since there was nothing else to do at the moment.
Time passed little by little, and before we knew it, it was eight o'clock.
A flash of white light, so familiar it couldn't be more so, and Shen Muyu, along with his car, appeared in the new game world.
Even though she was mentally used to the white light, her body wasn't used to it yet, and it took Shen Muyu a while to open her eyes.
She was now standing at the bottom of a cliff, on a road that wasn't quite straight.
This time it's a real highway, a six-lane one at that, and it looks perfectly flat. Finally, the tires won't have to suffer from the sandy terrain.
The cliff next to them was about twenty meters high, but this height was not fixed, because Shen Muyu noticed that the cliff sloped downwards and its height decreased accordingly.
To be honest, driving under such a cliff is quite oppressive; you always feel like you might be hit by falling rocks from above.
To the left is a cliff, and to the right is a river with a not-so-rapid flow, about four or five meters away from the road. Even though the flow is not fast, water still splashes onto the road.
These things didn't seem like much to Shen Muyu, but looking to the right, there was still a cliff, with a road on its left facing the road below Shen Muyu.
Given the organizer's unpleasant nature, there's a high probability that other Earthlings' vehicles will appear on the opposite side later. Don't be fooled by the fact that the two roads are far apart now; they might just connect in the future.
"What happens later is for later," Shen Muyu decided to enjoy the long-awaited sunshine for a while, deciding to let it pass by.
She got out of the car with Big White, feeling the soft sunlight and the soothing sound of the river lapping against the bank. Shen Muyu closed her eyes and shouted, "Awesome!"
Instead of rushing back to the car, Shen Muyu turned on the red light screen, silently praying that it would give her some initial artifacts like in the previous game.
As if his prayers had worked, as the backpack was opened, three wonderful items that Shen Muyu had never seen before appeared in the previously empty space.