It was already late at night when Xiao Tangqiu returned home. He was carrying a bag of beer bought from a 24-hour convenience store, turned on his computer, and prepared to find a comedy movie to watch while drinking.

As soon as he turned on the computer, QQ automatically went online and a dialog box popped up.

Marshmallow: Little sugar ball! Quick! Come and live stream with me!

Little Sugar Ball: I’m not in the mood today

Marshmallow: I know you're not in the mood, but you need to do something else to distract yourself.

Xiao Tangqiu paused and had to admit that Marshmallow was right. In the past, at this time every year, after visiting the graves, he would numb his nerves with beer and comedies. But every time the movie ended and the bottle was empty, a greater emptiness would surge in his heart, and he would have nightmares all night long.

Maybe he really should do something different from before to truly let go.

Little Sugar Ball: I see you are afraid of live streaming alone, so you have to drag me to accompany you

Marshmallow: Hey, come on, come on

Little Sugar Ball: What game?

Marshmallow: A homemade horror game, said to be a semi-finished product, the author has posted it on his personal website. I will send you the address. You can download the game client, register and choose multiplayer mode. After we form a team, we can enter the game together.

Xiaotangqiu: Homemade games have clients? So awesome?

Xiao Tangqiu opened the website sent by Marshmallow and clicked on it. It was indeed a personal website. The page was very simple and there was nothing special about it. Because there were very few options, he soon found the game that Marshmallow mentioned - a game called "Abyss".

The game icon is quite interesting. It is a tail-biting snake with its body intertwined in the shape of an "8". As a fan of horror movies and horror games, Xiao Tangqiu knows that this snake is called Ouroboros. In ancient Greek mythology, it is a giant snake that encircles the entire world with its body. It is called the Eternal Serpent and symbolizes immortality.

He clicked to download the client, thinking it would take some time, but surprisingly, it only took him 13 seconds to download.

Registration for this game is also very simple. You don’t need anything except entering your ID. When Xiao Tangqiu entered his usual “Little Sugar Ball” ID, the system prompted that he had successfully registered.

It was incredibly simple, and when he told Marshmallow about it, Marshmallow said it was probably because the game was only a half-finished product.

Xiao Tangqiu didn't think too much about it. As usual, he posted a Weibo saying "live broadcast later", opened the live broadcast room to warm up, and drank beer while reading the background and settings of the game.

Just like Marshmallow said before, the setting of this game is indeed quite interesting: a horror game streamer plays a horror game called "The Abyss" one day, but is suddenly pulled into the game and has to experience everything in the horror game firsthand. However, he soon discovers that this horror game seems to be more than just a game. If he dies in the game, he will never be able to return to the real world...

"Wow, how come this game's setting is so fitting?" Xiao Tangqiu said to Marshmallow and the fans who kept pouring into his livestream. "Aren't we just horror game streamers? Could it be that while we're playing, we get pulled into the game too?"

Marshmallow chuckled: "That's possible!"

As a relatively well-known horror game anchor, Xiao Tangqiu has quite a few fans. Although it is already late at night, just a few minutes after he posted a live broadcast on Weibo, the number of people in his live broadcast room quickly exceeded 30,000, and the number is still rising.

Before the livestream even started, comments and gifts were already pouring in. He casually thanked the gift takers while clicking on 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 six big blood-red words made him subconsciously feel uncomfortable, but he quickly overcame it. After taking a sip of cold beer, he clicked on the screen to continue. The next second, two options popped up - "Agree" & "OK".

Xiao Tangqiu: "..." Is there any difference between these two options?

After he silently clicked "OK", the originally black screen instantly turned bright red, as if it was splashed with a basin of blood. However, he had calmed down a lot and clicked the screen to continue.