In the complete darkness, both Luo Zhiye and Sun Zhenbo in the room clearly sensed—
Something has descended.
The moonlight that could be faintly seen through the window was now obscured by thick clouds.
In the pitch-black room, Luo Zhiye lowered his head, trying to make out what was in front of him.
Everything around was extremely quiet at this moment, and all the subtle environmental sounds seemed to have disappeared.
In the silence, Luo Zhiye could only hear the increasingly violent beating of his own heart.
He hasn't suffered any real injury yet.
But the instinctive human perception of danger made Luo Zhiye's hair stand on end and his heart almost leap out of his chest.
My mind kept telling me that I should immediately rush out the door and escape from this room.
But in reality, his hands and feet were numb, and his whole body was trembling like a sieve.
He felt as if he were an insect trapped in a hunter's snare.
No matter how much they struggle, they will only sink deeper and deeper into it, unable to escape.
"Sun Zhenbo...are you there...?"
But in this unbearable silence, Luo Zhiye still forced himself to endure his fear and tried to seek help.
His voice was hoarse and unpleasant.
In this silence, it's like sharp fingernails scraping against glass.
Naturally, Luo Zhiye received no response.
A vast silence enveloped him.
His divergent thinking even began to take shape.
When did all the sounds around us begin to disappear?
He had previously thought Sun Zhenbo's breathing was too heavy and rapid.
In the dimly lit room, Luo Zhiye, whose legs were weak, finally could not bear it any longer.
He suddenly knelt down and frantically groped around at everything around him.
They try to touch something concrete to prove that they are still alive at this moment, rather than being an illusion.
No! No! Nothing at all!
Before entering the private room, Luo Zhiye clearly saw a table full of wine.
But he couldn't touch anything now, as if he were in a void.
He curled up on the ground, completely too afraid to move.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
However! At that very moment!
A face with an extremely terrifying appearance quickly moved closer to his face.
Although the room was pitch black, the extremely close proximity allowed Luo Zhiye to clearly see the details on the face.
Where the eyeballs should have been on that face were two black holes.
Fresh blood kept flowing out of it.
His face, riddled with holes, looked as if it had been scorched by a raging fire, with disgusting maggots slowly wriggling on it.
Compared to the burns from the flames, those pitted holes looked more like they were made by maggots gnawing at them.
They were trying to curl up their bodies, as if trying to climb onto Luo Zhiye's more vibrant body.
Luo Zhiye had no time to think anymore.
"Help—! No! No!"
Luo Zhiye, who had fallen to the ground, used his hands and feet to push himself back.
"No! No! No! There are no ghosts or monsters in this world! It's all fake! It's all fake!"
Having only been in the game for a few days, he didn't know if ghosts and monsters really existed in this world.
But at this point, this was all he could tell himself—
Perhaps the players who supposedly died mysteriously in the past were just scaring themselves?
But at that moment, quite abruptly.
Everything around him seemed to come alive again, and the whistling wind rang in his ears.
What followed was a series of transparent, white, misty entities.
It resembled a ghost without a physical form, or a giant beast emerging from the mist.
It emitted a hoarse, whimpering sound, and wisps of white mist drifted past his eyes.
It swirled around him and passed through his body.
A chilling sensation, like that of a dead person, emanated from the point of contact.
The frigid temperature was exactly as I had fearfully imagined!
At this moment, Luo Zhiye's brain, which had been dormant for a long time, finally began to slowly start functioning again.
He gradually realized that the fear he was experiencing seemed to be a reflection of his own inner self.
A desolate and dark environment, terrifying maggot-infested corpses, and illusory ghosts.
The environment he is in now is like a "morphing monster".
It shines through his body, reflecting the things he fears most deep inside.
The remaining rationality made Luo Zhiye try his best to control his wandering thoughts and salvage his precarious and scattered reason.
But the panic has not yet ended.
Perhaps his self-righteous "enlightenment" was just a hunter in the shadows toying with his prey like a cat playing with a mouse.
Just when the prey thought it was about to escape, it discovered that the exit was actually the entrance to the cage.
Luo Zhiye finally realized that darkness had swallowed him up.
The black tide surged toward him.
The darkness, like gel, seemed to want to fill him up.
Mouth, ears, eyeballs, every crevice...
A feeling of nausea filled his heart.
"Monster...monster!"
However, the sudden sound of human voices in the silence brought Luo Zhiye back to his senses.
That sounds like—Sun Zhenbo's voice!
Luo Zhiye struggled to crawl out of the black mud.
"Ugh—ugh—"
He lay face down on the ground, feeling intensely nauseous and wanting to vomit, but nothing came out.
The scream, which seemed to have come from Sun Zhenbo, made Luo Zhiye realize that the other person might have also seen what he feared.
And the faint echo that followed the exclamation...
Luo Zhiye finally realized that he might no longer be in the private room.
"Sun Zhenbo! Where are you!"
Although they weren't exactly teammates, hearing the other's voice in the dead silence still brought Luo Zhiye some comfort.
However, his inquiries still went unanswered by Sun Zhenbo.
"A monster? Do you need to see who the real monster is?"
At that moment, a voice that Luo Zhiye had never heard before rang out.
The voice was cold and devoid of emotion.
As cold as glass, as sharp as a knife.
“Swish——”
The sudden bright light made Luo Zhiye, who was used to being in the dark for a long time, squint.
The mirror that appeared out of nowhere wasn't actually very bright; it only made the environment around Luo Zhiye slightly brighter.
But the sight of light had already caused him to shed physiological tears.
Using the dim light reflected from the mirror, Luo Zhiye was astonished to find that he was still in the private room of the tavern.
And under his seemingly violent struggle just now.
He was still in the same spot where he had been brought there.
Suddenly remembering the words spoken by that unfamiliar voice, Luo Zhiye abruptly looked up at the mirror in front of him—
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