"Head-Exploding Dice Cup, Attribute: None. 'Hey! Want to make a bet with me? If you lose, your head will explode, and if you win, I'll explode the dice.' Current number of dice: 3."

"Dear player, two Ghost Coins will add one more die. Would you like to spend Ghost Coins to increase the number of dice?"

The black dice cup sat quietly by the bedside, with a white skull printed on the lid. Xia Linyin reached out and lifted the lid, revealing three white dice with black dots inside.

Stroking the smooth surface of the dice cup, Xia Linyin murmured softly, "Xiao Li..."

With ten ghost coins, Xia Linyin spent six ghost coins to buy three dice, and used the remaining four ghost coins to increase the soul damage value of the high heels.

Gym--

Su Jinyan, wearing a black short-sleeved T-shirt and athletic shorts, was sweating profusely on the treadmill, her arms displaying firm but not exaggerated muscles as she swung them.

His sweat-dampened hair hung down his forehead, a few drops of sweat sliding down his high, straight nose, along the smooth curve of his jaw, and finally disappearing into his collar, leaving much to the imagination.

"Isn't he handsome? I didn't lie to you guys!" A female player nudged her companion with her elbow from a distance, smiling with an ambiguous and flirtatious expression.

"He's amazing! Look at those long legs and that face. If I could sleep with him, I'd have no regrets in this life," another female player said.

"It's a pity he's not interested in women, and of course, he's not interested in men either. He's considered a veteran player in our B area, and he only has one more game left before he can move to the A area. Don't let his pretty-boy looks fool you, he's incredibly skilled. Once, a guy tried to sleep with him, and he kicked him so hard his genitals were blown off."

"As expected, handsome men are more likely to attract wolves. I'll give it a try. It's okay if he rejects me. It's good to be able to exchange a few words with him anyway."

The rather attractive female player tossed her hair and walked towards Su Jinyan. "Handsome, want a drink?"

The female player who posed next to Su Jinyan believed that, given this angle and Su Jinyan's height, she could definitely see the snow-white cleavage on Su Jinyan's chest.

"Thank you, but no need." Su Jinyan smiled politely at the female player before turning his gaze back to what was ahead.

The female player, covering her flushed face, returned to her companion's side and exclaimed excitedly, "His voice is so nice! His smile is so warm and handsome!"

Suddenly, Su Jinyan seemed to see something. He turned off the treadmill, picked up a towel, and walked over.

A tall, slender figure blocked her way. Xia Linyin paused, looked up, and smiled. "Be careful what you say!"

Su Jinyan looked at Xia Linyin without saying a word. He rarely wore black clothes, and Xia Linyin was used to seeing him in white clothes. This time, seeing him wearing a black T-shirt and staring at her with a deep gaze without saying a word, Xia Linyin felt inexplicably uneasy, and her heart started pounding.

"W-what's wrong? Be careful what you say."

“I logged out of the game yesterday, while you logged in a day earlier than me,” Su Jinyan asked slowly. “Was this game very long?”

"Hmm? Oh, right!" Xia Linyin nodded. "We had to escort a thousand-year-old female zombie from the escort agency to the tomb of Marquis Wu. It took us several days just to get there."

"It's good that you're alive." Su Jinyan said this and turned to leave, her expression somewhat indifferent.

Xia Linyin was a little confused by Su Jinyan. She scratched her head and walked towards a treadmill.

Su Jinyan stopped after walking a short distance. He was silent for a moment, then picked up the towel hanging around his neck and wiped the sweat from his face before turning around and walking towards Xia Linyin.

"Shall we watch a movie together later?"

Xia Linyin was startled by Su Jinyan's return. She stared at Su Jinyan blankly for a while before nodding, "Okay."

"Okay." After receiving Xia Linyin's reply, Su Jinyan left the gym.

The female player who had just chatted up with Su Jinyan frowned and asked her companion, "Hey! Who's that woman?"

"I heard it's his girlfriend, but I don't think so."

"How so?"

"They often eat together, but their actions aren't intimate, unlike a couple in love. Besides, I've observed that the girl never has any hickeys on her neck. Think about it, if they were really a couple, how could they not do that?"

"You even observe this? Tell me, how long have you had your eye on her? But just because there are no marks on her neck doesn't mean there aren't any elsewhere."

"You don't understand. Haven't you heard the saying, 'The more reserved a man is off the bed, the more passionate he is in bed'? Don't be fooled by Su Jinyan's abstinent appearance, I guarantee... cough cough, you know what I mean!"

"What you said makes some sense."

"Wow! I've noticed my reasoning skills are getting better and better. Those two are definitely just covering for each other. These two oddballs are so unpredictable. Their lives are practically over, and they don't even know how to enjoy the little bit of fun they have left."

The hotel's cinema plays various horror movies 24 hours a day. When Xia Linyin and Su Jinyan arrived, "The Haunted Village" had just finished playing. After they sat in their seats for a while, the big screen lit up again.

Xia Linyin ate popcorn with a blank expression as she watched the horrifying and bloody scene on the screen. However, when she saw the male protagonist in the movie desperately sawing off his own leg and then dragging his severed foot out of the basement, her expression changed.

Xia Linyin gripped the popcorn bucket tightly in her hand, her breathing becoming somewhat rapid.

This is a movie called "Saw". At the beginning of the movie, the male protagonist wakes up to find himself in a dilapidated basement with one foot shackled to an iron pipe. This scene reminds her of the scene she experienced in the cabin in the woods.

Sure enough, they were told to cut off their own wrists with axes.

In the movie, a masked man says, "I want to play a game with you," and then he meticulously orchestrates everything, wanting to watch the people he has chosen kill each other under his command.

So what about them, what about these players?

Who exactly created this game? Did they also want to see the players struggle to survive in order to satisfy their perverted desires?

In the movie "The Cabin in the Woods," there's a scene where the crew members are betting money on which monster will be summoned, while the male and female protagonists are being tortured by zombies, and the crew is drinking and celebrating.

Are the people behind this horror game also drinking beer and betting on which player will die first and which will survive to the end?

"What's wrong?" Hearing Xia Linyin's unsteady breathing, Su Jinyan turned his head to look at her.

"It's nothing." Xia Linyin shook her head, picked up her drink and took a sip. "I just thought of some bad things."

"In this game called 'Escort Agency'..." Su Jinyan suddenly asked, "Have you encountered him?"