Chapter 22 Let me introduce myself. My name is Duke, an unemployed vagrant.
"Hello everyone, I'm Er Niu." Er Niu's voice was somewhat strained, clearly unaccustomed to treating newcomers with such gentleness.
Back in the day, he was a "Fruit Ninja" master who would just take a knife and butcher the newcomers!
And now he had to patiently introduce the Reincarnation Space to a group of old folks, corporate drones, and students.
For Er Niu, this was truly torture!
Er Niu rambled on for a bit. After hearing the notification that the one-hundred-point introduction reward, exclusive to veterans, had been credited to his account, he, a major player in the "farming" style, promptly shut his mouth and said no more.
Fortunately.
Among the crowd, a girl with green hair reorganized Er Niu's explanation and spoke up.
"So, we have to complete the trial of each horror movie, and the more dangerous the situation, the greater the rewards will be..."
She looked at Da Qiang, who had just demonstrated his power. "When the time comes, we can also become like him, limitlessly strong."
"I get it!"
The crowd had a sudden realization!
A burly, unshaven man stood up and slapped his thigh. "Damn it! I was sick of living anyway! This is great! An opportunity like this! It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance! We must go to that... that what's-it-called..."
He trailed off, and it was Yan Wei who continued for him: "The Engineer's planet."
"Right! The Engineer's planet!" The burly man rubbed his hands together. "Then our chances of becoming superhuman and gaining eternal life will be even greater!"
Faced with their boring lives, everyone present actually felt a similar sentiment.
Even the grandma who had just been sent flying by Da Qiang's punch for being too noisy had simply grown tired of her daily routine of looking after her grandchildren. One day, while wiping dust off her grandson's computer, she saw a [Yes/No] pop-up and clicked it, which was how she ended up in the Main God Space.
Er Niu's exaggerated speech had duped this batch of newcomers into thinking that surviving horror movie reincarnations was a simple matter.
Of course, for a member of a "farming" team like Er Niu, the rewards gained from a single horror movie were four to five times that of a normal reincarnator. His power was overwhelming, so naturally, his description made it sound simple.
But he also hadn't told the whole truth.
If he had recounted his experiences in *The Grudge*, this group of people would probably have their faces contort in terror again and start screaming to go back to Earth.
"Judging from the movie *Alien: Covenant*, our greatest enemy should be the android, David." The green-haired girl continued, "The difficulty isn't high. It should exist as a transitional movie for newcomers."
Er Niu was stunned.
The deception mission that Da Qiang had given him was perfectly completed under the clever words of this green-haired girl?
Huddled in a corner, Ren Arakawa smiled without a word.
With every reincarnation, the team would "refresh" with personnel of various professions, roles, and specializations.
Types like strength-based, technique-based, and agility-based were relatively common.
Intellect-types were rarer.
But it was plain to see that this green-haired girl was not one of them.
She hadn't considered at all why the Main God would go to such great lengths to gather so many people into a horror reincarnation space just to experience terror.
Thirty-five crew members armed with modern weapons—even against a Xenomorph, that was crushing combat power.
In reality, the Main God Space never tested reincarnation squads based solely on the content shown in the original movies.
It would often adjust the difficulty automatically.
Even if the movie the team entered was called *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie*, the Main God could mutate Squidward into a Cthulhu-esque giant octopus.
Here in the Main God's domain, there was no such thing as a horror movie you could clear with your eyes closed.
"Alright, since this so-called Main God has gathered us together, then we're all teammates from now on." The short-haired, green-haired beauty smiled at the crowd. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Xiaoye Hui, and I'm of mixed Japanese descent."
"Ah? So were you speaking Chinese or Japanese just now?" a yellow-haired man asked, covering his mouth.
"Japanese, of course," Xiaoye Hui said, nodding her head, looking just like the stereotypical Japanese people often seen on TV.
"No wonder I thought you sounded a bit strange at times! I can actually understand you!"
Er Niu rarely offered an explanation: "In the Main God Space, whatever language you speak, even a dialect, will be automatically translated into a language everyone can understand."
"That's great!" Xiaoye Hui clapped her hands in approval. "Now I don't have to learn Chinese anymore!"
Seeing her brilliant smile, Ren Arakawa's gaze swept past Meng Rui for a fraction of a second.
Although Meng Rui had a smile on her lips, the killing intent in her eyes couldn't be concealed at all.
The naive Xiaoye Hui had truly arrived at a good time.
If the group's background wasn't that of ship crew members, but rather ordinary citizens on a street, she would have been silenced by Meng Rui after her second sentence.
After demonstrating his power, Da Qiang didn't seem to impose any more restrictions on the newcomers. He sat silently beside Meng Rui, muttering something in a low voice. Although Ren Arakawa wanted to hear, he was afraid of exposing himself and decided against getting closer.
Yan Wei wanted to regain his authority. He pulled Xiaoye Hui aside and whispered a few sentences.
Before long, Yan Wei and Xiaoye Hui returned to the group, and he used her as a mouthpiece to voice his own ideas.
"Let's have everyone introduce themselves, including your profession and what you're good at. This way, I can assign you the work that suits you best."
The moment these words were spoken, Meng Rui over on the side couldn't help herself. She winked at Da Qiang. "This little girl wants to take control of the team."
"Let her be! Newcomers are called reincarnators, but aren't they just ordinary people? They've never even touched a gun; they're worse than any of the interstellar colonists in the movie." Da Qiang spat. "If she gets in the way, we'll just kill her. A thousand points isn't something we can't afford."
"Why kill her? Just cut off her legs and let her fend for herself. It's the same thing," Meng Rui whispered softly.
It was as if she wasn't talking about a human life.
But rather, about whether a melon rind should be thrown into the dry trash or the wet trash bin.
"Then... it's your turn!"
After Yan Wei introduced himself as a company executive and Xiaoye Hui introduced herself as a dancing online streamer.
Xiaoye Hui turned her gaze towards Ren Arakawa in the corner.
"Duke, unemployed," Ren Arakawa said tersely, his four-word reply complete.
"Is that so?" Xiaoye Hui continued to size up Ren Arakawa. "Then what are you skilled at? Your strengths? Things you're interested in?"
"I used to work a nine-to-five. Later, I got addicted to novels," Ren Arakawa answered again, pulling his cap down lower.
"Understood." Xiaoye Hui clapped her hands. "Then everyone has finished their introductions. Oh, wait, there's still one more over there!"
Da Qiang had already introduced himself, and Er Niu had also spoken.
With great audacity, Xiaoye Hui turned her gaze onto Meng Rui's face.
"Heh, that little girl's calling you!" Da Qiang said with an expression of someone watching a good show.
Meng Rui didn't seem offended. She flashed an innocent, harmless expression at Xiaoye Hui and said:
"What a coincidence. I'm also in a profession that serves men, just like you."
Xiaoye Hui was utterly shameless. On the contrary, she seemed excited, as if she'd just met someone in the same trade. She ran forward and grabbed Meng Rui's hand.
"Sister, are you a dancing streamer too?"
Meng Rui smiled, a chilling smile.
"I'm a... specializing in 'eating' old men over sixty until their family lines are cut off." She took out a knife, touched its tip to Xiaoye Hui's cheek, and continued:
"Black..."
"...Widow."
(end of chapter)