Edited by Zaki
Note on TitleIn the silence of the night, the sound of pattering rain could be heard especially clear.
In the mourning hall that was surrounded with white silk curtains, white candles flickered and fluttered, illuminating the small hall brightly. Eighteen people stood scattered in the corners of the room, far away from the coffin in the center.
The night wind blew in water droplets from the wide open door, making everyone tremble with the cold, and the flames on the candles became even more erratic.
The atmosphere was eerie for a while.
Suddenly, a melodious musical sound rang in the ears of the crowd, with a soothing undertone that didn’t even frighten them. They looked around, attempting to find where the sound came from, but found nothing.
[Welcome to “Abyss Game”, I am the assistant system 018 of Lord Ye Xu, the God of the game.
The following are the rules of this round of games:
This instance is open for seven days. All players are requested to try their best to survive until the end of the first seven days. If they die halfway, they will fail the game;
Every night, a night watchman needs to be selected among the players, who will stand alone in the mourning hall and receive the guests who come to the mourning. The rest of the players can return to the room to rest at night;
The night watchman has an absolute safety shield the next day and is immune to all damage;
I wish you all a happy game!]
[Please choose a night watchman before 12:00 midnight.]
Need to keep vigil in the mourning hall?! The silent crowd instantly became alarmed as they looked at each other in dismay, not knowing what to do.
Even in an ordinary mourning hall, the vigil looked eerie. Keeping vigil in this seemingly unsafe game, who knew what one would encounter.
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After all, they had just experienced a shocking catastrophe.
——Heaven and Earth shattered, literally.
All the players here were newcomers who had entered the game for the first time, and they all came from the same place– a world that just died out.
He didn’t know if the world finally couldn’t bear it anymore, or something happened. The world they lived in suddenly collapsed, the sea flooded in, and the sun and the moon fell. The world was destroyed, and everything occurred unexpectedly.
Fortunately, human beings were not destroyed along with everything, but were pulled into the game world by this Abyss Game. Before entering the novice instance, all of them received a notification from the Novice Reception System. It said that as long as they could clear the ten instances, they could choose a peaceful world to be resurrected. This was a great temptation for homeless players.
However, Gu Mozhi was not moved at all.
He wasn’t from that unlucky world in the first place. He was a demon from Purgatory, and because of his damned curiosity, he had drilled into the cracks of Purgatory that he had stumbled upon by accident, and then, of course, he had run into other worlds. This “other world” was the unlucky place that had just been destroyed, and Gu Mozhi had only stayed there for half a month before the world was destroyed, leaving him at a loss as to whether or not he should lament his bad luck.
Of course, he had realized now that the destruction of the world had nothing to do with him. In fact, there were already clues that the world was about to be destroyed.
After all, if it wasn’t because it was about to collapse, how could there be a space-time rift connected to Purgatory? Thinking about it, from that time on, cracks began to appear in the space of this world.
All of this had nothing to do with Gu Mozhi. Gu Mozhi was just implicated innocently. Fortunately, he was pulled into the game, otherwise he would have to work hard to find a chance to escape from the collapsed world.
Compared to other panicked players, he was much calmer. As a demon, ghosts were part of his diet. He was not afraid of food, so his reaction to this thrilling-sounding game was flat. At this moment, it was not sure that there would be ghosts coming out, so he didn’t care much.
After coming to the human world, Gu Mozhi tasted a lot of human snacks. In the past half a month, he had been addicted to eating, drinking and having fun, and had long forgotten the smell of ghosts. Before the ghost actually appeared, he might have had a bit more of an appetite if he heard fried chicken being mentioned.
Unfortunately the evil spirits in Purgatory were tainted with the breath of Purgatory and they tasted weird and not delicious at all. Gu Mozhi had no choice but to eat a lot of Purgatory ghosts and monsters previously, and remembered the taste that made the demon regurgitate so vividly that his first reaction at the mention of ghosts was to want to vomit.
He hoped the ghosts here would be more worthy and not so unpalatable.
Just as Gu Mozhi was thinking about midnight snack, someone among the players finally spoke up.
“That… Shall we start selecting the night watchman now?” It was a young man who spoke. He scratched his head, thinking that no matter how silent he was, there was no way out. It was almost 12 o’clock. He didn’t know what the consequences would be if the time limit was exceeded.
Everyone looked at him in unison, making him tremble and felt very uncomfortable.
After one person broke the silence, everyone else started to speak one after another. But the topic they talked about had nothing to do with the selection.
The first one to speak was an uncle: “After the destruction of the world… were you all then pulled into the game?” When he mentioned the destruction of the world, he had a strange expression on his face, as if he hadn’t fully accepted the fact.
When everyone heard this, they immediately started talking, and they were obviously more willing to talk about this topic than choosing who to be the night watchman.
“I am.” “Me too!” “It should be all…” “Oh my gosh am I really not dreaming?” “…”
Seeing that they were chatting more and more vigorously, the young man quickly interrupted: “It’s almost midnight, let’s choose someone first.”
“Choose people, choose people! Can you stop repeating? We are not fools, we don’t need you to remind us!” The middle-aged uncle said angrily.
An older woman gave the youngster a critical look, “Hey young man, since you’re in such a hurry, why don’t you do it on the first day?”
Immediately, someone seconded it: “I think this proposal is good.” Anyway, as long as they didn’t come to be the night watchman themselves, they had no objection.
“That’s not good, is it?” An honest middle-aged woman glanced at them in a rushed manner, “This young man looks too young, he probably doesn’t have much experience, in case he does something rash during the night watch, wouldn’t it be dangerous?”
“Then do you think you should find someone with experience? Auntie, I think you are very experienced.” A young girl immediately said, and she purposely smiled sweetly at the other party after she finished speaking.
The middle-aged woman was speechless.
“Stop arguing.” A pink-haired young man who looked sloppy suddenly interrupted everyone’s mutual excuses, “There are seven nights, and there are only eighteen people here, at least one-third of the people have to be chosen as night watchman. In my opinion, it’s better to choose them together now, so as to avoid trouble later.”
This was reasonable, but no one wanted to hear it. Who was willing to decide life and death for the next few days immediately. Even if it was just a day, everyone wanted to delay it.
Seeing this, a beautifully dressed college girl in a Korean dress smiled and eased the atmosphere: “Actually, the night watch is not necessarily a bad thing. The night watchman has an invincible buff the next day during the day, which means that it is also dangerous during the day. The night watchman only needs to face the dangers at night, the others must be vigilant 24/7, and I don’t think the ghosts will leave us alone while we sleep.”
“You’re right.” Finally there was someone with a brain, Pink-hair nodded with satisfaction, “But the vigil in the mourning hall is definitely more dangerous than elsewhere, so we can all weigh the pros and cons for ourselves. Those who are willing to keep watch raise their own hands, we’ll count them up and arrange the duty for these seven days. Those who are unwilling, don’t regret it later.”
People were selfish. If you show them that there was no danger in watching the night and getting a buff for nothing during the day, those who were not willing at first would rush to come. He said it beforehand, so that when he refused, it would seem like he had more confidence.
Gu Mozhi listened with interest for a while, thinking that with a few more interesting players, this game wasn’t so boring after all.
However, their persuasion efforts did not achieve much good results. Except for Pink-hair, the college girl, Gu Mozhi, and a little girl who didn’t look old, no fifth person raised their hand.
The young man looked at the people who had raised their hands in surprise: ”You, you guys aren’t afraid? This spooky place might actually have ghosts!”
Even people who were staunch atheists, after experiencing the destruction of the world, couldn’t calm down now. Judging by the meaning of the system, there were many dangers in this game, and maybe the ghosts were just a trivial matter. They were all afraid of death, even if they knew in their hearts that going back to sleep wasn’t necessarily safe, most of them still subconsciously chose to escape, the farther away from the mourning hall the better.
“Of course I’m afraid.” The girl looked at him, her voice was very gentle, and she replied seriously, “But there are some things that can’t be solved by avoiding them.”
They would go through nine more instances later on. Could it be possible to survive until the end by evading? She didn’t think she had such good luck, and she didn’t think that the main God of the game would be so merciful. Instead of passively waiting, she chose to take the initiative.
Only by forcing herself to adapt to this game as soon as possible and comprehend the game strategy earlier could she survive better.
Pink-haired young man’s reason was a little more simple. He was not very afraid of ghosts, nor was he very afraid of death. In contrast, he was looking forward to the ghosts that were about to appear, and wanted to see what real ghosts looked like. Maybe it was like the story of Lord Ye who loved dragons, but it was undeniable that he was very brave at the moment.
The young man looked at Gu Mozhi again. Gu Mozhi yawned and ignored him.
“…” He looked at the last ten-year-old girl again, “Aren’t you afraid?”
It was a 12-year-old girl, wearing a junior high school uniform and a red scarf. She looked like she was in the first grade of junior high school and hadn’t joined the Communist Youth League yet. She was wearing a ponytail and a beautiful hairpin. She was not very conspicuous when standing at the back of the crowd, but in order to be seen by Pink-hair, she had squeezed to the front to raise her hand.
She gave the young man a cute smile: “Uncle, I’m fine, I’m not particularly scared.”
The young man: “…Just call me brother.”
What’s wrong with kids nowadays, how could they just call someone uncle so casually!
Ela~~ Hey Lovely Readers! Started this new novel! The premise was very interesting and I have not done infinite flow before so please be gentle! If you find any mistakes, as always ping me 🙂 Hope you will enjoy <3
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Go 12 year old! Hahahaha! Thanks for the translation 🤣❤️🤣❤️
I wonder who this Lord Ye Xu is…🤔😮
If you want to be respected by youth, you should be prepared for this name
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That 12 having more balls than all those people…thanks for the chapter! ❤️
Currently rubbing my hands in anticipation, cant wait!!
NU has a tag “Appearance Different from Actual Age”. So I’m guessing that the little girl is actually the ml? Just guessing here, but that would be really interesting lol.
…I don’t think ml would go that far to pretend to be a little girl…
this trope is very common I’m guessing we already got the name of the ml? ahem Lord Ye?