11 Chapter 11: The Dark Candle Lights the Green Lamp, the Watchman Arrives at Midnight_1

Mu You quickly clicked on the text to check out his spoils this time.

[Watchman's Pumpkin Lantern: The lighting used by watchmen during their night patrols, lighting it up can reveal some things invisible to the naked eye. Event occurrence rate increases by 30%, only effective at night.]

"A lantern?"

Mu You stared blankly, then clicked on the pumpkin lantern's text.

The next instant, a bizarrely shaped pumpkin lantern appeared in his hand.

A golden pumpkin head, carved into the image of a ghost face, hollowed out inside. In the center, a transparent bottle was placed, filled with some powdery floating particles, continuously emanating speckles of glow.

On top of the pumpkin, a wooden stick about two feet long was connected by a string. One end was linked to the pumpkin lantern, while the other end was held by Mu You.

"'Reveal things invisible to the naked eye'...what does this mean? Ghosts? Spirits?"

Mu You frowned at the explanation in the text.

After thinking for a moment, he lifted the pumpkin lantern and shone it on the ground around him for a test.

Of course, nothing unusual was found.

Under the strong sunlight during the day, the glow emitted by the pumpkin lantern was so faint it was nearly imperceptible.

Moreover, it was specifically stated in the game instructions, the effect of the pumpkin lantern 'only works at night'.

"It seems I can only try this at night."

Mu You shook his head. He clicked on 'pumpkin lantern' in the text again and put the pumpkin lantern back into the game before looking at the next item in the game.

[Watchman's Backpack: A backpack that has had a space spell cast on it. It houses a different world with dimensions of 100 meters in length, width, and height (can be fused with similar spatial items to expand the internal space). It can transform into any backpack style, and its interior can be switched between the alternate world or ordinary backpack mode at any time.]

"Isn't this a storage bag!"

Mu You was surprised. Having been exposed to countless movies and novels, he naturally understood how significant a storage tool could be in exploring different worlds.

He quickly clicked on the backpack's text.

A small bag made with black fabric and a drawstring appeared in Mu You's hand.

However, it was only the size of his palm. It was more like a cloth sack than a backpack.

But when Mu You opened the drawstring and looked inside, he was immediately dumbstruck.

Indeed, inside the bag was an entrance to a different world!

Looking down, there was a faint source of light coming from below. It seemed to be the interior of a wooden shed, with a ladder leading down from the bag's opening for easy access.

Regrettably, the bag's opening was too small, with Mu You only able to fit an arm inside.

"The text mentioned something about this backpack being able to transform freely... how do I change it?"

Mu You looked at the bag in his hand, thought a bit, and set it flat on the ground. Then he tried to imagine what a suitcase would look like in his mind.

With a soft 'poof', the palm-sized bag indeed transformed into a large suitcase with wheels and a handle.

Mu You opened the zipper of the suitcase, inside was indeed the different world's wooden shed, and the tiny gap from before had also enlarged into a meter-wide entrance. This made going in much more manageable.

Mu You went to the door, locked it, drew the curtains, then walked back to the side of the suitcase, following the connected ladder into the interior of the suitcase.

Descending the stairs, Mu You looked around. Present before his eyes was a small wooden house of less than thirty square meters. There was a rough wooden bed inside it, laid with a thick layer of hay. There was also a wooden workbench not too far away, with various empty bottles and vessels arranged on top of it.

Other than that, there was nothing else. The whole room looked just like an abandoned studio.

After looking around, Mu You walked to the cottage door, pushed open the door and stepped outside.

A dazzling light spread out, outside the cottage was a field comparable to a football ground, covered with lush grass. The air was fresh and the light was abundant.

Mu You looked up. At four corners of the sky, the faint marks of the edge of the suitcase were barely visible.

Above his head, there was a hazy luminous orb floating, continuously emitting soft white light, acting as the light source and illuminating the whole space.

Curiously, Mu You walked to the edge of this space and tried extending his hand forward for a touch.

The result was it felt like an invisible wall was blocking, fingers bounced back as soon as they moved forward.

He tried in other directions as well. The result remained the same. All four sides were blocked by invisible walls, prohibiting a single step from leaving the space from any direction.

This scenario reminded him of the movie "The Truman Show". No matter how he looked at it, this place resembled an independent space forcibly separated from a real world, albeit much more compact than Truman's world. It was more than enough to be used as a storage space, but it would be almost impossible to live here long term.

"However, since this backpack can be opened both in the game and in reality, can I use it to travel back and forth between the two worlds?"

As Mu You exited from the backpack entrance on the roof of the small shed and came back to the real world room, this idea popped into his mind.

No sooner thought than done. He immediately found an empty cup and threw it into the small shed.

Afterwards, he closed the suitcase and tried to open the backpack in the game again.

As a result, a notification popped up on the screen: [Warning: Unidentified items are contained in the backpack, unable to open.]

"So, it doesn't work huh..."

Mu You responded with a bitter smile. As long as the backpack contained something from the Earth side, it could not be opened directly in the game.

It seemed trying to take a shortcut through the 'wall' to the wizard's world on the other side wasn't so easy after all.

Luckily, this restriction would not impact the use of the backpack in reality.

In any case, Mu You currently had nothing in the game. He wouldn't need to use this backpack to carry things for the time being so, he might as well just use it in reality.

Having put away the backpack, Mu You finally looked at the last item.

[Watchman's Skin: When the Fool lights the green lamp at midnight, the Watchman appears! After loading, the game character will be replaced with 'Watchman'. ps: Wearing the skin allows the Fool's game character to take on the corresponding appearance and identity, and it can also manifest physically in reality. Owned skins can be switched at any time, attributes, and levels are passed on.]

[Watchman: The profession of timekeeping for village residents, they also assume some of the night shift patrol tasks. Fixed task: patrol outside at least one hour from midnight till 4 a.m. daily, and earn a year of lifespan, the task has a one-time daily limit!]

"Task!?"

Mu You was startled, quickly followed by great excitement.

He knew that this game shouldn't just take away lifespan without giving anything back.

As it turns out, to obtain lifespan, he has to take over the work of some native in the game. He can earn lifespan as payment by completing their work!

Exactly, if he considers lifespan as the currency of that world, then completing work and receiving payment becomes a reasonable logic.