By the time Xiao Tangqiu got home, it was late at night. He carried a bag of beer bought from a 24-hour convenience store, turned on the computer, and was about to find a comedy movie to drink to.
As soon as he turned on the computer, everything automatically went online and a dialog box popped up.
CottonCandy: LittleCandyBall! Quick! Come stream with me!
LittleCandyBall: I’m not in the mood today
CottonCandy: I know you’re not in the mood, but you need to do something to distract yourself
Xiao Tangqiu hesitated. He had to admit that CottonCandy was right. Previously, this time every year, he would use beer and comedy to numb himself when he came back from visiting the grave. But there would be even bigger emptiness followed by nightmares all night.
Maybe he really should do something different from before in order to truly let go.
LittleCandyBall: I think you’re just scared to live stream alone and need to drag someone with you
CottonCandy: Heheh, come come
LittleCandyBall: What game?
CottonCandy: A homemade indie horror game. It’s said to be a semi-finished product. The dev posted it on their personal website. I’ll send you the link. You can go to the game client and choose the multiplayer mode after registration. We can enter the game together after forming a team
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LittleCandyBall: Homemade game with a client? So fancy?
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The game icon was interesting. It was a snake biting its own tail in the shape of “8”. As a horror film and horror game lover, Xiao Tangqiu knew that this snake was called Ouroboros, the World Serpent from ancient Greek mythology which surrounded the world and symbolized .
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The game registration was also very simple. Nothing was required. You only need to enter a name. When Xiao Tangqiu entered his usual “LittleCandyBall” username, the system prompted that he had successfully registered.
It was incredible. When he told CottonCandy about it, CottonCandy said it was probably because the game was an incomplete product.
Xiao Tangqiu didn’t think too much. After he posted a “live for a bit” Weibo as usual, he opened the live stream room to warm up and opened the game while drinking beer.
As CottonCandy said, the premise of this game was indeed interesting. It was about a horror game host who played a horror game called “Abyss” one day but was suddenly pulled into the game and had to experience everything in the horror game firsthand. Soon, he discovered that this horror game seemed to be more than just a game. If he died in the game, he would never be able to return to the real world…
“Wow, why is the plot of this game so suitable?” Xiao Tangqiu said to CottonCandy and his fans who were constantly pouring into the live stream room. “We’re not the protagonist streamers, right? And it’s just waiting for us to play to drag us into the game?”
CottonCandy chuckled, “It’s possible!”
As a well-known horror game host, Xiao Tangqiu had a lot of fans. Although it was late at night, just a few minutes after he posted his live Weibo, the number of people in his live stream room quickly exceeded thirty thousand, and the number was still rising.
The live stream had not even started yet and the chat and gifts were already flying. While thanking the gifts casually, he clicked the game client to enter the game. Soon, the screen went black and a line of blood red words appeared, “Welcome to the Abyss.”
The blood-red letters made him feel unsettled, but he quickly overcame it. After taking a sip of cold beer, he clicked on the screen to continue. In the next second, two options popped out: “Agree” and “Confirm”.
Xiao Tangqiu, “…” Was there any difference between these two options?
After he clicked “Confirm” silently, the originally dark screen instantly turned bright red, as if it had been splashed with blood. But he had calmed down a lot, and clicked the screen to continue.
Another line of blood-red words appeared on the screen, “The First Story, “The Ghost House of Fishing Village”.
Fishing village? Haunted house?
Just as Xiao Tangqiu pondered the name of the story, he suddenly felt that something was wrong… It was too quiet. Way too quiet.
This game was really too quiet. Not only did it lack the scary BGM of ordinary horror games, it also had no special sound effects. It was so quiet that it was a little creepy.
But what’s even more frightening was that his room was too quiet. There was no sound from the air conditioner, no sound coming from next door. This was too strange. The sound insulation of this apartment building was very poor. He often heard music playing outside his walls in the middle of the night, so lively it might as well be dancing on his forehead.
The whole world seemed to fall into a deep sleep at this moment, as quiet as dead silence.
Xiao Tangqiu felt terrified inside. He wanted to stand up and see what was going on, but at this moment, a burst of unprecedented exhaustion suddenly swept over him.
He was instantly sleepy and his eyelids drooped down like a weight.
In less than three seconds, he fell asleep.
…
“Congratulations, dear players, for accepting the D-level mission [Fishing Village’s Ghost House]. Your mission goal is [Remove the Curse of the Fishing Village]. The time limit is 3 days. After the mission is completed, you will get 500 points. If the mission fails, you will be directly obliterated. “
“Finally, dear player, welcome to the Abyss…”
“Hey!”
“Hey! Wake up!”
Xiao Tangqiu struggled to open his eyes to a man’s simple and rude violent shaking. When he saw the man in front of him clearly, he shrank back in fear.
He was a sturdy black man with a rough-looking appearance and a grim expression. He was wearing a white vest with strong muscles bulging out. His entire large arms were tattooed and he was also wearing a big gold chain.
Xiao Tangqiu stepped back in shock only to realize that he was actually on a swaying tourist bus.
Wasn’t he live streaming at home? Why did he suddenly appear on a tourist bus?!
Before Xiao Tangqiu could react, a scream from beside him called out his doubts, “Who are you people? Did you kidnap me? Let me go! I’m going to call the police!”
Big Gold Chain let go of Xiao Tangqiu, turned his head and walked towards the screaming man and said grumpily, “Shut up if you don’t want to die!”
Xiao Tangqiu took the opportunity to quickly look around the tourist bus. The tourist bus was very empty. There were dozens of seats, but only thirteen people were seated. In addition to him and the Big Gold Chain, there were eleven people.
Because of the small number of people, everyone was sitting very scattered. There were three people he couldn’t see the face of in the first row, a seemingly couple sitting in the third row, and two girls sitting in the fifth row. The noisy young man was sitting in the middle. Then, there were three men in the two rows ahead of him and he sat alone in the last row.
“Why should I! Who are you? Let me go now! Don’t think I’m afraid of you! I’ll call the police right now!”
Big Gold Chain grabbed the young man who was still shouting by the collar and warned him angrily, “If you keep yelling, I’ll throw you out of the bus from the window!”
The young man immediately went quiet like a chicken grabbed by the neck. He subtly retracted into his seat. The others were also frightened by the fierce aura of Big Gold Chain, and shakily shrank into their seats.
Big Gold Chain crossed his arms over his chest. He looked around inside the tourist bus and sneered, “I believe you all heard that voice, that voice in your brain. Whether you believe it or not, in short, you are already in a horror game. If you don’t complete the tasks in the game, you will all die!”
He curled his lips and revealed two big golden teeth, but his smile was very gloomy, “Dear rookies, welcome to the Abyss!”
😱 !! Well, this is exciting.
Damn! I wasn’t expecting this. How exciting!!!
Ooooohhh my favourite type of BL☺️🌝
Hella excited 😆