Chapter 11
At the beginning of a new day, the popularity of the "Nightmare World" forum soared wildly. New posts would appear on the homepage with a casual refresh. The subject content of many new posts was full of meaningless exclamation marks and question marks, which confused the new players in the forum and almost made them suspect that there was a bug in the forum.
After clicking into the most popular post, I finally understood what major events had happened in the game.
The main building was concise and to the point, without any detours, and directly dropped the depth charge:
[Good news! As of 8:21 AM today, the main storyline for the Nightmare World beta dungeon, "Lost School," has finally surfaced!]
1l (Original Poster): [To be honest, before the main storyline was released, I was a little disappointed with "Lost School." As a beta dungeon for a large-scale holographic horror game, "Lost School" is far too safe. Players are almost completely safe when exploring within the dungeon. For a horror game, this is a congenital malformation and its most fatal flaw.
Rather than calling it a "horror game", terms such as "love game", "role-playing game", and "real-life crime simulation game" are more suitable for it.
But! As soon as the main plot appeared today, all my previous ideas were overturned!
It's not that it's not scary and exciting, it's just that the information we players have dug up is too superficial, and we haven't even touched the true core of the dungeon. Orz, we players have worked hard for more than half a month, and we haven't even dug out the story line in the dungeon.
Words cannot describe the shock I felt when I learned the truth about the copy.
It turns out that I am the rookie
Now the plot line of the copy is very clear. The fake principal has taken over the university and created the "Nightmare H University" for his own selfish desires. The real principal, Professor Cen, has been deprived of his identity and memory and is unable to rescue the students from the fake principal.
What players have to do is to stop the fake principal from destroying the school and help the real principal take back H University.
This instance looks incredibly difficult, so we need to act now. Professor Cen also said we're running out of time. Interested brothers and sisters, let's get together today and enter the real instance to explore.
2l: [Besides 6, I don’t know what to say, come on, Brother Three]
3l: [As one of the players present, I would like to add another clue. According to the information given by Professor Cen, if you want to enter "Nightmare H University", you need to get a special "pass", which is the questionnaire.
The questionnaire will only be sent to the mobile phones of students and faculty members. In other words, in order to get the questionnaire, players must obtain one of the identities of "student" and "faculty member".
However, how players can obtain identities is also a big problem.]
4l: [Damn, damn, damn, I woke up and everything at H University has changed. Is the current President Hong a fake president? Professor Cen is the real president?? I'm confused. And what exactly is going on with "Nightmare H University"? Can you explain it to me, a newbie?
5l: [To put it simply, H University is actually divided into the "Surface World" and the "Inner World." The "Inner World" is the real replica. To enter the "Inner World," you need to use the "Questionnaire" as a medium.]
6l: [The player has never been able to learn any clues about the "other world" before, entirely because the fake principal has been strictly guarding against any information about the "questionnaire", setting various restrictions and doing everything possible to prevent players from entering the other world. This also shows that Principal Hong must be the villain.]
7l: [So, what Professor Cen said is true? Is he really the president of H University?]
8l: [Hh I'm dying of laughter. What nonsense is that? Professor Cen, no matter how pretty he is or how nice he speaks, is still a dungeon NPC. How can you trust everything he says?]
9l: [Agree. Although Professor Cen has the potential to be a guiding NPC, the player has too little information. Professor Cen's stance and purpose are completely unclear. Ultimately, whether to trust Professor Cen's words or not will depend on actually entering the inner world and exploring it.]
10l: [I don't care! I already trust Professor Cen unilaterally. My wife is so beautiful and speaks so sincerely, how could he lie to me! No more words, "Evil World", start! Honey, I'm here to help you take back H University!]
11l: [I'm impressed by these fans of looks. Looks really are justice. It would be interesting if Professor Cen turned out to be a bad guy. I'm looking forward to the expressions of these fans of looks being shattered (pure malice)]
12l: [Hehehe femme fatale, I love you even more~ (yellow face drooling)]
13l: [Get lost! Get lost, all you face fans and pervert fans! Seriously analyzing, just lick the face and go to the next door to lick it]
As the post became more and more popular, many players entered the post to enthusiastically discuss the new clues, and the comment section quickly became crowded.
Players who don’t have to go to work log in directly to the game and rush to the scene. New battle reports are constantly coming in the replies. Players who have already gone to work cannot enter the game and can only secretly post water posts behind their bosses and colleagues to satisfy their craving for games.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but a new reply in the comment section shocked everyone.
223l: [News! At 10 AM, we'll be heading to the administration building to try to forcefully enter our information into H University's student records. We've already convinced Professor Cen to help. Anyone interested, please be there on time!]
One stone can cause a thousand ripples.
It wasn't until the 256th floor that a player noticed this useful message mixed in with the verbal battles and analysis.
256l: [Holy crap, they actually went directly to the administration building to enter student files. Which boss came up with this incredible idea? Awesome!]
257l: [I'm going! I'm going! Hehe, I'm just skipping the second class. Playing games in class is not as fun as playing games.]
258l: [Haha, I'm just quitting. My stupid boss called me a low-life again today. I'm not going to work for him anymore! Without a low-life like me to help with the technology, I wonder how his crappy company will operate.]
259l: [The sense of substitution is too strong. Look at the above. Some "higher species" are like this. They rely on their own abilities and think they are superior to everyone else. It's really disgusting.]
260l: [Didn't they say during the promotion of "Nightmare" that it would give players a chance to change their lives? Perhaps]
261l: [Shh! Don't talk about that. Rumor has it that after the emergence of "Evil World", the authorities have been suppressing it. Logically speaking, why would a small holographic online game be suppressed? Can you guess why?]
262l: [Haha, why else? I touched the cake of some "higher species". They are anxious, really anxious.]
263l: [The more I'm told not to play, the more it seems to be a scam. I still want to try it and see how "Nightmare" can change my life!]
Rong Tianchang typed this line of words on the keyboard viciously, clicked send, then leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath.
Rong Tianchang is one of the 10,000 players selected for the internal beta test of "Nightmare World".
In this world of superpowers, ordinary people without superpowers are ants, even lower than cattle and horses. According to the strength of their superpowers, people are divided into different levels. The top superpower people stand at the top of the pyramid, while ordinary people are trampled into the quagmire at the bottom by the superpower people.
And in this clearly ordered and unequal society, the sudden emergence of "Nightmare World" instantly caused huge turmoil.
Rong Tianchang still remembers that day when a push message suddenly popped up on his phone. The first sentence captured his entire attention, and he couldn't help but read on.
"Want to change your life?"
"Do you want to become a top-level psychic and be the best among people?"
“Welcome to the Nightmare World. When the nightmare comes, you will have a chance to change your life.”
Although the advertising slogan seemed ridiculous, Rong Tianchang was still compelled to click on the "book a spot for internal testing". Perhaps it was because his real life was so bad, so even though it seemed ridiculous, he still held on to a glimmer of unrealistic hope.
Rong Tianchang himself didn't expect that he could actually get the beta test number.
Although the advertising slogan is a bit fake, the production company of "Nightmare" is actually rich. On the day Rong Tianchang filled in the delivery address, the holographic helmet was delivered to his doorstep.
From then on, the stagnant life was injected with new vitality. Wearing a holographic helmet, Rong Tianchang seemed to have entered another real world, a world without inequality and oppression, where players could even do whatever they wanted to NPCs.
Rong Tianchang became addicted to the feeling of being able to do whatever he wanted. He finally understood why those people with special abilities could treat ordinary people as anything but human beings.
When a person possesses absolute power, his morality and humanity may approach zero infinitely.
Rong Tianchang leaned back on his gaming chair, his excitement slowly subsiding. He opened his eyes and saw his own small, dimly lit room.
The small room of more than ten square meters can be seen clearly from the chair. Due to moisture, the walls are covered with dense mold spots. He tried in vain to cover them with cheap wallpaper, but the damp and moldy smell could not be blocked.
In order to save money, he rented a north-facing room, which made his quilt damp all day long and the clothes hanging on the windowsill could never get enough sunlight.
His boss, a person with super powers, once covered his nose and disliked the smell on his body. After learning the reason, the boss nodded with contempt and ridicule and said that inferior species are inferior species, and are only fit to live in a sewer without sunlight like rats.
Damn it! I worked diligently for him for several years, and I don’t even deserve to live in a house with sunlight!
Rong Tianchang was very angry, but he didn't dare to lose his job, so he could only swallow his anger and flatter his boss servilely.
But even so, he was fired.
Just two days ago, an F-level psychic replaced him.
Simply because the boss believes that people with special abilities have better physical fitness and are less likely to die suddenly.
Rong Tianchang picked up the instant noodle bucket and took a big bite of the cold noodles, as if he was gnawing on his boss's head. He glanced at the time, 9:16.
Rong Tianchang threw the instant noodle bucket onto the table and reached for the holographic helmet beside him: "Drink it!"
He wants to gamble on the opportunity that can change his life!
With his eyes closed and opened again, Rong Tianchang entered the game.
After players log into the game, they will be randomly placed in any corner of H University. This time, Rong Tianchang was lucky and was directly teleported to the vicinity of the administrative building.
Rong Tianchang read the news on the forum and went straight to the library auditorium. The players would gather in the auditorium to discuss the next course of action.
On the way, Rong Tianchang met many players walking towards the library. Rong Tianchang knew that there would be a lot of players, but he didn't expect there would be so many. When he entered the auditorium, he saw a dense crowd of heads.
Rong Tianchang was shocked. It was work time. Were all the players unemployed? Were they all so idle?
The auditorium, which could accommodate two thousand people, was already filled with players. The voices merged together and turned into a loud buzz. Rong Tianchang stood there blankly, finding an empty seat, and saw more players walking in.
Oh my god, why are there so many players!
Does everyone want to take a gamble?
Rong Tianchang had no one to talk to and felt a little bored. He couldn't help but open the system panel and start browsing the forum. After a while, Rong Tianchang suddenly felt that the voices around him had become quieter.
Rong Tianchang seemed to sense something, looked up, and saw someone coming onto the stage.
It was a strange player who seemed to have a natural aura of looking down on everyone. Rong Tianchang could tell at a glance that this player was definitely a "higher species" in the real world.
He may not have special abilities himself, but his family has people with high-level special abilities, which makes him, who has family blood, a superior being.
Only this kind of person would dare to take the microphone as a superior in this situation.
Rong Tianchang's face darkened and he slowly clenched his fists. He was really cruel to the so-called "higher races". The faces of these people were simply disgusting. How could he kill them?
"Want to kill them?"
Suddenly, a voice appeared in Rong Tianchang's ears, which was both far away and close to him, and sounded inexplicably bewitching.
Who, who is it?
Rong Tianchang looked around. He was standing by the window, which was a very remote corner. Everyone preferred to lean towards the front and the middle, so there were not many people next to him.
So where did that sound come from?
"Want to kill them?"
The voice asked him again.
Rong Tianchang's eyes were dazed for a moment. This time, he chose to follow the evil intention in his heart and gave an affirmative answer: "Of course I do!"
There was a subtle sting at the back of his neck, and Rong Tianchang heard a smiling voice: "I will fulfill your wish."
Rong Tianchang's eyes were blank for a moment, but soon became clear.
An almost transparent thread extended from the back of his neck, passed through the small gap in the window, and connected to the fingertips of another person.
Cen Xun leaned lazily against the wall, looking down at the puppet strings wrapped around his fingertips with interest.
In addition to being used as a weapon to attack, this thing also has the ability to be controlled.
interesting.
In order to gain the trust of the players, Cen Xun has to maintain a positive image on the surface, but it is impossible for Cen Xun to not do bad things. What should he do?
Of course, I can only happily create a pseudonym.
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