The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle-Chapter 53 Settlement and Update

"Three lunatics."

Su Qi returned to his personal login space.

Why the hell are you shouting so loudly? It's like you're at a funeral.

[Player Su Buxian has cleared solo special limitation instance No. 978913]

[Game difficulty: Nightmare]

[Game Rating: 100]

[Settling rewards]

[Received Perfect Level Dungeon Clearing Experience Points and 3,000 Game Coins, eligible for one lottery draw]

[Your level has been raised to 12]

[Acquired 23 attribute points to distribute]

[Instance summary: The pitiable lives trapped in the Cage Land have finally been liberated with your arrival. Although your method deviated from the main storyline, it still concluded well. Regardless of intent, you've spun the wheel of fate and altered their future.]

"Two levels at once..."

Su Qi looked at his Experience Points: "Looks like the experience from these special instances is higher than others. Add the Nightmare difficulty and solo instance bonuses, and it's not that surprising."

[Your level has surpassed 10, and the newbie protection mechanism has been disabled.]

[Caution: After level 10, dying within an instance triggers a punishment mechanism, resulting in the loss of Experience Points and Game Coins (the higher the level, the greater the punishment cost; this excludes PVP-type instances).]

[Caution: The team instance matchmaking system will no longer differentiate between new players and beta testers; instance content limitations are lifted, and the balance algorithms adjusted.]

"The death penalty..." Upon reading this, Su Qi thought of Xun Xiaohuan and speculated, "Could that guy have been kicked out of Paradise and forced to start over because of the death penalty?"

He could control Flying Knives, but it wasn't due to equipment traits, nor did it seem to be a Skill; it was more like a kind of Telekinesis talent.

"I've just lost the newbie protection, so it looks like there's a lot more to explore." Su Qi was looking forward to it.

At that moment,

A notification from his mailbox suddenly popped up forcefully.

[Notice: On October 22nd at 12:00 PM, the first game update will commence (Please note: matchmaking is now disabled, but this will not affect players currently in instances). The updated version will be 2.0, and is anticipated to take 2 hours.]

"An update..." Su Qi paused for a moment, remembering the official announcement that the daily marketplace would go live after the update, along with many other features.

The matchmaking interface had already been dimmed, rendered unusable.

Su Qi also checked the lottery system; it was the same situation. He couldn't even distribute his attribute points.

"It seems the personal login space is temporarily suspended, so I can only log off for now."

The update time for Abyssal Paradise was not entirely unreasonable.

Since the open beta of the game, many players had been sacrificing sleep, steeped in the game round the clock... Some were able to play four or even five instances within twenty-four hours.

Of course, the game's sleep mode hasn't been launched yet, so players would still feel tired and sleepy upon returning to their Personal Space, even if they could sleep in instances.

Su Qi got out of the gaming pod and checked the time—it was just past eleven o'clock. He paced over and pulled open the curtains.

"Looks like the weather's nice today. I could go to the market and buy some stuff; the fridge has been empty for a while now."

He threw on a coat and headed straight for the market.

Su Qi was always good at haggling even before he could see question marks—now it was even easier.

"Hey, young man, buy a chicken."

Wait, buy what?

The chicken vendor offered a sincere smile, "Home-raised chicken, grown eating millet."

But Su Qi saw, [Dead from illness, contains medicinal residues].

Goodbye.

"You want three pounds of fruit?"

"Yes, exactly three pounds..." The fruit vendor showed Su Qi the scale's display.

Oh.

[One pound seven ounces]

He immediately put it down and walked away.

After a round through the market, Su Qi felt like he was opening blind boxes; he finally managed to buy some stuff and returned home.

He took out his phone and sent all the problematic vendors' addresses and reasons to Liu Yishou.

Then he forwarded a few videos, every video title deep in thought.

[Rectification, urgent!]

[Don't let waiting become a regret!]

[They dare to do this now; I can't even imagine what they'd dare in the future!]

About ten seconds later.

Liu Yishou replied to the message.

"?"

He slowly said, "I hope you haven't forgotten that I'm part of the Investigation Bureau. This kind of matter should be sent to market supervision..."

Su Qi forwarded another message.

[Shocking! After numerous unsuccessful reports, a customer actually went to chop someone!]

"...."

"Forget it, I got it, I'll pass it on."

Liu Yishou was somewhat helpless. After a few seconds, he sent, "Did you have any nightmares or something last night?"

"Yes, but it doesn't seem to be a big problem." Su Qi didn't hide anything; that Black Shadow had already become his servant, serving him tea and water overnight.

"That's good, but still be careful..."

Liu Yishou slowly continued, "Supernatural phenomena like this are tricky to deal with. You have to rely on yourself, and it will grow day by day by absorbing the negative emotions of its host."

"And it's connected to the Spiritual Attribute. That girl is now focusing on Spiritual Power and has improved a lot. You've just been entangled with it, and the supernatural entity hasn't grown yet, so there's still time."

"Okay, I'll be careful."

Before, there was no sign of the supernatural happening. Now he also knew that the Black Shadow could grow by absorbing negative emotions like fear and dread.

But being a sunny and optimistic big boy wasn't for nothing.

Plus, since it was related to the Spiritual Attribute... there was even less to worry about.

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"By the way, I have another question—did you queue up for a game this morning?" Liu Yishou asked out of the blue. He had to do this because Paradise had no record of Su Qi, so the only option was to ask Su Qi himself.

"Hmm, solo queue...Perfect clear." Su Qi didn't hold back.

"Perfect on Hard, huh? Impressive, must be at least an 80 point score." Liu Yishou felt reassured. With this...he could report back, and Su Qi's spot would be secured.

Su Qi sent him a '?' in response.

"What?"

"Did I say it was Hard?"

"Ordinary?"

"Thinking downwards, huh? It was Nightmare difficulty, score 100."

"!!!!"

"For real?! Nightmare 100 points! How did you do that!" Liu Yishou typed out a string of bewildered characters.

Su Qi's message came: "Don't ask, as long as you have the skills, it's all that matters."

"..."

After returning home,

Su Qi soaked some dried shiitake mushrooms, cut the bought chicken thighs into pieces, used cooking wine to remove the gamey taste, then poured in some of the water used to soak the mushrooms.

In terms of cooking, he felt he was no less skilled than Pig Head Man.

If it weren't for the conditions at the time not allowing.

He felt he could have argued with the guy.

An hour later,

The aroma of stewed chicken had already wafted out, Su Qi then added chunks of green and red peppers, let them braise for a few minutes, and served the dish.

"These days, you still have to cook for yourself..."

While enjoying his lunch, Su Qi opened up his phone.

He scrolled through short videos, quickly felt bored... and then opened up a forum. With a slight scroll, he saw a post.

[Shocking! Abyssal Paradise actually appeared a long time ago.]

"Ah, this."

Upon opening it, Su Qi saw a photo of an old newspaper... It contained a report on a suicide case where before dying by suicide, the person left a blood-written note on the floor: "I should have never entered this Abyss."

And the date on the newspaper was from twenty years ago.

People in the forum thread took it as the original poster playing a prank, after all, the word Abyss had many implied meanings.

Yet Su Qi examined it closely, but half a minute later, the post suddenly disappeared.

Deleting the post?

The power from the officials.

"If there is indeed a connection, then the underlying scope is not small. And this part of the content can only be understood after entering that so-called Paradise."

After finishing his meal, the update and maintenance were about to end.

He wasn't in a hurry to go in. After the meal, he took time to wash the dishes and digest... before lying down in the game pod.

"Let's see what they've updated this time."