After eating the pickled cabbage beef noodles that might have been cooked by the aunt, Zheng Li wiped the corner of his mouth.

"Fuck, eating instant noodles in the middle of the night, you really are not doing anything right!"

A roommate who had just finished playing a game smelled the odor and condemned Zheng Lidao.

"Eat it if you don't agree."

Zheng Li packed up the garbage, hurried back to bed, put on his helmet, and entered the sea of ​​stars again.

Soon, the door of "The Conjuring Night" appeared in front of him.

Zheng Li carefully observed the door. It felt real and had a strange smell.

Thinking of this, Zheng Li suddenly felt a little horrified.

It wasn't like there was a voice calling my name, or someone tapped my shoulder or anything like that.

He just remembered something.

Lu Ban is a director who started out making horror films.

The horror movies he usually shoots are scary enough with just the images and sounds. Now, if he turns those movies into virtual reality works, people can explore the movie by themselves...

"Fuck, this is more than just a haunted house, it's a haunted house!"

Zheng Li sighed.

He studied forensic medicine and had seen corpses, but Lu Ban's movies were still very scary. Zheng Li knew that corpses could not speak, but in Lu Ban's movies, those scary things were not corpses!

Those bugs, those wriggling and twisted monsters, and those gray and white humans like statues are so terrifying that just one look at them can make one lose their minds and go crazy.

If it could be explained by science, Zheng Li would not be afraid, but those things were beyond common sense and he could not understand them no matter how hard he tried, and they would have an indelible impact on him.

If people who have not received an education and still have feudal and superstitious ideas feel "awe" about these things, then Zheng Li, who has received a complete education and has a good understanding of science, feels "indescribable" about these things.

Those things are neither idealistic nor imaginary, nor can they be explained or analyzed by scientific theories. In Zheng Li's view, they are completely indescribable and indescribable.

But curiosity overshadowed fear.

Zheng Li felt that no matter how outrageous it was, it was still a game after all. At worst, he could just pause and exit it. Could it still come out of the helmet to find me?

He pushed open the door.

Crunch——

The sound of wood rubbing against each other rang in his ears again. Zheng Li saw a light inside the door, but he couldn't see clearly what was inside. The light scattered and burst like soap bubbles.

Zheng Li walked forward and into the light.

When his vision was completely occupied by the light, Zheng Li saw some clues appear in front of him.

For example, it has now become the [Normal] experience state, which means that Zheng Li's body perception will mostly be taken over by this helmet. He will not hear the ordinary white noise from the outside world, and his actions in the game world will not affect his body in the real world.

This sounded a bit scary, but Zheng Li immediately opened the settings interface.

The experience status turned back to [mild], and he could vaguely hear his roommates yelling and swearing while playing games. This noise, which usually disturbed people's sleep, actually made Zheng Li feel very at ease at this moment.

He entered the game again. At this time, the lights had almost disappeared, and Zheng Li found himself in a room.

"This is?"

He made a sound, and at the same time, Zheng Li was shocked to see that the mottled marks on the table were twisted and rotated to form lines of text.

[Some people died, but he is still alive]

When Zheng Li saw the first sentence, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

What is this text?

What is this game about?

He saw the text continue, quickly revealing some information, including the background of the house, his own identity as a detective, and the ins and outs of the story.

Zheng Li immediately realized that this was a ruined city!

He had never been to the Wasted Town, but he had seen photos taken by others and watched previous live broadcasts. He quickly recognized the setting as the world of the Wasted Town.

Moreover, people like Taoist Heming are things that only appear in a wasteland.

Zheng Li suddenly became a little excited.

In previous movies, he could only understand these strange and wonderful worlds through pictures, but now, through this game, he can actually experience every detail of this world.

He reached out and touched the tabletop, and the delicate waxed feel made him shudder inside.

There was a damp smell in the air, just like the rotten smell that lingered in those abandoned shipwrecks that had just been pulled out of the sea.

Zheng Li looked around and saw a strange oil painting. The creature in the painting looked like a hound, but also more like some kind of insect or spider. In the dark night, it looked weird and scary.

He called up the system panel in the game again and looked at his tasks.

[Survive until the end of the Summoning Night 0/1]

A survival game, and it looks like a puzzle game, similar to an escape room.

Boom——

A loud thunderclap startled Zheng Li suddenly, and the hairs on his back stood up. When he realized that it was thunder, Zheng Li looked out the window and found that there was a vast forest outside, with only a winding path that allowed the car to go down the mountain.

The house is located on a cliff, and it looks eerie and strange under the illumination of lightning in the dark clouds in the distance.

Boom——

There was another muffled thunder, the sound was low and seemed to resonate with Zheng Li's heartbeat, making him feel a palpitation.

This was different from the thunder in the cinema. It was a real sound that resounded in Zheng Li's heart. He felt as if he was really in a mansion where a storm was about to come.

"gentlemen."

Suddenly, another unexpected voice sounded from behind Zheng Li, causing Zheng Li to jump subconsciously and lean against the window.

He saw a white-haired old man standing at the door, dressed like the butlers in the movies.

“Is this the beginning of the plot?”

Zheng Li muttered something, but the old man seemed not to hear him. He bowed to Zheng Li and then spoke.

"They are all here."

"them?"

Zheng Li was a little at a loss. He didn't know who the old man was referring to, but based on the background just given by the system, he guessed that it was probably the family of the deceased.

"I have to survive until the end of the Summoning Night, which means I have to spend nine days here?"

"This game is ridiculously long."

"Should I investigate this place now? Can I get out?"

"Something is going to happen on the last day. I came here so early, probably to find a way out. Hmm, I don't know how intelligent this NPC is. How about asking him first?"

Thinking of this, Zheng Li decided to ask.