The Weird Life Game: Starting as a Department Head

Chapter 5 Update: Star Picker

"I promise to marry her."

Faced with everyone's questions, Song Qingyang gave an unexpected answer.

Taking advantage of everyone's surprise, he began to explain further:

"The core rules of this game are not complicated, but there are many small details."

One of them is the strength of the curse.

If the curse were a disease, it would be a contagious, chronic illness in the Black and White group, while the Full Color group would experience an acute illness upon infection.

"Qingyang, who is she?"

Lu Tingxue didn't let Song Qingyang get away with it so easily, but Song Qingyang wasn't nervous when questioned.

"Her identity will remain a secret for now, otherwise if any one of us is transformed, she will be exposed immediately."

"Qingyang's caution is correct."

Liu Xuan chimed in from the side:

"If the curse only targets me, I'm not afraid, but the curse can affect my family."

My parents have worked hard their whole lives, and they have all sorts of health problems. I don't even want to think about how their health will worsen because of the curse.

After hearing Liu Xuan's words, everyone expressed their agreement.

When you have nothing to do, anyone can claim to be tough and resilient.

But when family members are suffering right before your eyes, no one dares to say they are truly heartless.

Lu Tingxue didn't press the matter further, but instead changed the subject:

"From what we've seen so far, this is a faction-based game. What are the victory conditions?"

"The conditions for victory are currently unclear; the Black and White teams only know the conditions for defeat."

What are the conditions for failure?

"They're all dead."

Song Qingyang's straightforward answer left Lu Tingxue speechless and caused many others to gasp in surprise.

"Is this game forcing us to kill each other?"

One of the students couldn't help but exclaim, and then saw Song Qingyang raise his hand towards him.

"Don't panic yet, there's one more crucial piece of information I haven't mentioned yet."

He paused, waiting until everyone's attention was fully focused, before speaking solemnly:

"The game will be constantly updated with new versions, and the first version update is coming soon, at midnight tonight."

This first day is just for us to get used to things; after tonight, the real game begins.

The student who had just spoken twitched at the corner of his mouth upon hearing this news.

"You mean, before the game even officially started, Luo Yingchen died in the preparation stage?"

You're telling me not to panic, meaning you want me to wait until you finish saying that before I panic, right?

"What I mean is, nothing is clear yet, and anything can change."

At this moment, Song Qingyang revealed an optimistic spirit:

"Moreover, Luo Yingchen's death is really suspicious. The difficulty might be reduced after the first version update of the game."

For a moment, no one could tell whether he was serious or joking.

At this moment, Xu Hang, who had been silent all along, spoke up and gave a summary:

"From the current perspective, the rules can be simply summarized as follows."

He raised his hand, extending one finger, and all eyes turned to him:

"First rule: Our background setting, or rather our profession, is our protection."

If we lose it due to negligence, illegality, or other reasons, we will be cursed with misfortune.

The way to break the curse is to drag another person whose image in the group photo still has color into the water.

Seeing that no one raised any questions, he held up his second finger:

"Secondly, the game type is faction-based combat, and the Black and White factions will always suffer from a low-level curse."

If the failure condition is total annihilation, the corresponding victory condition is naturally to annihilate us all.

We can't infect them in return, but we can wait for the curse to wear them down.

At this point, Xu Hang looked at Song Qingyang:

"There's just something I don't understand."

If that's really the victory condition, then they'd be much faster than following the rules and just coming at us with knives.

This question drew everyone's attention back to Song Qingyang.

"Xu Hang, have you forgotten? There's a third rule."

Song Qingyang took out a group photo from his pocket and pointed to Cheng Shuo's face, which had turned black and white:

"A rule we set."

Xu Hang was stunned, and a scene flashed before his eyes.

While still in the classroom, Cheng Shuo wrote a rule on the blackboard: classmates should help each other.

If this rule works as well as other game rules, then everything makes sense.

Since classmates should help each other, then hurting each other is naturally prohibited.

"The class monitor is indeed farsighted, it's just a pity he was unlucky and was assigned to the opposite group."

One student remarked with emotion, then looked at the crowd:

"Shall we all go home first, or stay here and wait for the update?"

"At least I need to go back; the unexpected event took up too much of my time."

Another student stood up, grabbed his coat, and put it on.

"I have to go to work tomorrow, and I still don't understand what my job is."

This reminded the others, and they gradually got up from the sofa.

The background information for this amulet is not very complete, and everyone needs time to figure out their identity in society.

Nobody wants to make a mistake and lose their job before even being sabotaged by the Black and White Group.

After a new Fetion group was created with only members of the full-color group, everyone left one after another.

Soon, only Xu Hang and Su Wanqing remained in the room.

"call."

Xu Hang was never used to crowded environments, and he breathed a sigh of relief after his classmates left.

"Thank you for the funeral; I'm not very good at handling those kinds of situations."

He looked at Su Wanqing, who was sitting on the sofa playing on her phone.

"You're welcome. What did we just say? We should help each other, right?"

These words warmed Xu Hang's heart. He suddenly remembered that he and the other person had an agreement:

"Oh, right, custom outfits!"

Upon hearing this, Su Wanqing immediately turned her head away and covered her ears.

Seeing this, Xu Hang didn't mention it again and got up to take a look around the whole house.

Since the game started, he hasn't been anywhere outside the living room.

With a beep, his phone suddenly rang. He took it out and saw it was a message from Su Wanqing:

"...Send me the ones you like on my phone, and I'll take pictures and show them to you when the clothes arrive."

Looking back, Su Wanqing was still facing away from him.

In the evening, the two heated up the food they had brought back from the stir-fry shop and made do with a meal.

Since they are only legally married, they naturally sleep in separate rooms.

No one could sleep tonight, patiently waiting for the clock to pass midnight.

At the same time, the vast majority of students, whether in black and white or full color, also couldn't sleep.

Dear players, we believe you have already experienced the game's charm.

As the clock on the phone struck midnight, a message was sent to everyone's phone.

[The upcoming version 1.0 update will bring you a brand new surprise.]

[Version 1.0: Star Hunter, officially updated!]

[Version Introduction: Player "Lu Tingxue" will obtain the identity "Brilliant Star", enter a period of career advancement, and have an increased luck value.]

If the Cursed initiate a "hunt" targeting Lu Tingxue and successfully destroy her career, they will receive an additional luck bonus.

The event will offer a chance to obtain the special destiny attribute: Star Picker.

[During the hunt, participants are immune to Rule 1. If the hunt fails, a certain amount of luck will be deducted and transferred to the hunt target and the assisting player.]

Luck can suppress curses; a decrease in luck will worsen the curse and bring misfortune.

Enjoy the game!

The update contained a lot of information and was quite lengthy, which made Lu Tingxue, who was specifically mentioned, a little flustered.

But she wasn't the only one who was a little flustered tonight.

Ding!

After the version update notification was pushed out, Xu Hang was preparing to read through it carefully from beginning to end when he suddenly received another text message:

The number does not belong to any particular student, and the message is very brief:

"Why didn't you tell anyone else that I was hiding among you?"