Side Story: Horror Space (Part 1)



"Now that you're awake, get up quickly."

In a busy street corner, more than a dozen people were lying haphazardly, blocking a large area, yet passersby naturally avoided the spot.

The cold, murderous voice reached Li Peng's ears, and his heart skipped a beat.

He quickly opened his eyes and scrambled to his feet.

The speaker was a muscular man, his entire body covered in bulging muscles, exuding a fierce aura. What was most striking was that, despite living in modern society, he was dressed as if he had just come from a battlefield.

A black gun barrel was pointed directly at the group of people lying on the ground.

"She's quite smart."

Seeing Li Peng get up quickly, the burly man's eyes flashed with approval, then he grinned menacingly.

“Some idiots are different; they think they're clever…”

Upon hearing this, Li Peng looked bewildered and opened his mouth as if to ask something.

The next second, the gun barrel was seen to rise slightly—

Bang! The bullet was fired and hit someone who was lying down.

"Aaaaaah!"

This was a white-collar worker in a suit and tie, who was holding a briefcase. Blood was gushing from where he was shot, and because he was not far away, some of it splashed onto Li Peng.

I was stunned for a few seconds.

An overwhelming fear surged from every part of my body to my mind.

This is a real gun!

Murder!

For people who have always lived in a peaceful society, even if they see a gun, they would not think it is real. So when Li Peng first woke up, although he felt that something was wrong, he could only think of pranks or recording a TV show.

Isn't that common?

Something like kidnapping ordinary people and then observing their reactions.

But with that shot, everything collapsed.

“I already said to get up when you wake up. Since you’ve ignored me, I’ll reluctantly become a teacher and teach you what rules are.”

The burly man nonchalantly retracted his gun, looking at the people who were gradually waking up from their screams, and spoke:

"First, in this place, the weak must unconditionally obey the orders of the strong. If you are told to lick shoes, don't lick legs."

"Second... there is no second. The only truth is that the strong dominate the weak. Of course, once you are stronger than me, you can also treat me like a dog."

The burly man grinned.

These words and the bloody scene before them silenced the awakened person, who dared not utter a single word.

Li Peng broke out in a cold sweat, because he and the white-collar worker should have woken up early. However, he didn't think too much about what the burly man said and immediately got up.

The white-collar worker, perhaps wanting to observe the situation, pretended not to wake up and continued lying on the ground.

Clearly, the burly man was making an example of someone.

The "disobedient" white-collar worker was like this chicken; by a single wrong decision, Li Peng almost ended up in the same situation.

…………

He threatened all the newcomers, and they all obeyed obediently.

The burly man was quite satisfied. In fact, he had only experienced three horror movie scenes and had not gained much except for these firearms and his muscles.

I found out this time that it was a newbie event, and I was assigned the task of mentoring new people.

My first thought was that they'd hit the jackpot.

Although the horror space is cruel, the first experience for a newcomer won't be too difficult, which means he can survive another round. Moreover, as long as he can subdue the newcomer, there will be many benefits.

Seeing that most of the people had woken up, the burly man told them where they were—

Horror Space.

"...Here, as long as you pass through the horror movie scene, you can earn points and other rewards. You can exchange them for everything, become stronger step by step, and even reach the level of gods and demons."

"Of course, if you die on a horror movie set, then you lose everything."

The burly man spoke loudly while scanning the newcomers with his gun.

In the crowd, Li Peng also glanced at his "companions" out of the corner of his eye, silently noting down their personal characteristics and trying to analyze them with his chaotic mind.

Most of them were young people, half men and half women.

The remaining two middle-aged men, in their forties or fifties, were well-dressed and had resolute eyes. They subtly surveyed their surroundings and nodded slightly to each other as they looked at each other.

The only elderly person among them was dressed in a Tang suit, with white hair, and his demeanor was quite graceful.

The old man stared at the gun in the burly man's hand with a mixture of fear and hatred in his eyes.

Then, at the burly man's request, everyone introduced themselves.

When it was the fourth person's turn to introduce themselves, the burly man suddenly spoke:

"You're lucky."

This is a beautiful woman with long, wavy hair. Even through sunglasses, her stunning beauty is evident. She introduces herself with a pale face and, like the others, trembling.

Upon hearing this, he looked completely bewildered.

Li Peng and everyone else looked at her. She seemed like an ordinary urban woman, nothing special.

"I can run ten kilometers in a row."

The beautiful woman thought for a moment and said.

"Hahahaha, what's this? Just 100 points will double your stamina."

The beautiful woman's words made the burly man laugh so hard he almost fell over. He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and revealed the answer: it turned out that, for some reason, the terrifying space sometimes had a preference for women with outstanding appearances.

Although it occurs infrequently, it can even be described as extremely rare.

However, the mission participants still discovered this little rule.

There's no way around it; the fear between life and death is immense.

Even the slightest glimmer of light will be studied and analyzed by these people.

"Of course, according to the research of those old people, this favoritism is limited to women and is extremely irregular. Some beauties have good luck for several rounds in a row, but then they receive no special treatment in the next round. There are also super beauties who die in the first round."

Seeing some of the male newcomers, who considered themselves good-looking, start to stir, the burly man's words shattered their illusions.

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