I've never even personally experienced an SS-level world, yet I dared to venture into an SSS-level world! Watching live stream replays never gives me that sense of danger.
Perhaps I wasn't taking a risk, but rather being foolish.
This is the first time I have faced "God" directly.
The lies and rules, constructed from the truth, intertwined, made me feel for the first time in the world of ghost stories that everything was out of my control, and I walked on thin ice with every step.
I remember the first time I saw Laaste in that world, he only said one sentence to me.
"Are you coming to a place like this to die?"
"I won't die! Don't forget, I'm the number one ghost storyteller in White Eagle City!"
Even when I encountered the most difficult rules to break or the most troublesome strange occurrences, I never gave up. I survived the first day by stepping over the corpses of all the other ghost story writers!
Thirty ghost story tellers! I'm the only one left alive!
What did I get? Only the message, "You cannot leave the world."
Either you complete the game or you die here? It certainly sounds like something only the protagonist would encounter.
Until I met the [Director], a god.
He cut off the live stream, and later everyone knew that the White Eagle SSS-level ghost storyteller survived the second day in the SSS-level dungeon and successfully left the world.
They call me the world's number one ghost storyteller, but only I know how I was treated like a toy by the "director".
I had never seen a game like that before. He wanted me to play a game of chess with him while I was completely blind and deaf. But that wasn't enough to make me feel desperate. When I made my first move, He flipped the chessboard over and said that I had lost.
He is the director, and I am the actor. The actor's fate is always in the director's hands. I survived because He didn't want to kill me, and because He found me interesting.
It's also because He didn't take me seriously at all.
Surrounded by the world's spectators, I left the world of ghost stories in a disheveled but glorious manner.
My younger brother said to me, "You're amazing!"
The government told me, "You did a good job."
But Laaste told me not to be foolish again.
The director told me, "You're an interesting ant, and I look forward to your performance."
I said to myself, 【——————】
In the fifth month, while watching Long Guojiangran's live stream, I noticed something was wrong.
Jiang Ran was completely different from the Jiang Ran before, both in his demeanor and his habitual movements. Others seemed to be filtered through a lens and couldn't see these strange things, but I knew that it was exactly like my situation!
Meeting a fellow countryman in another world is something to celebrate for me, but I can't see Jiang Ran yet. Perhaps our next meeting will be in the world of ghost stories.
To be honest, I'm quite looking forward to meeting him. Will he be a "special case" like me?
In the sixth month, I was still paying attention to Jiang Ran. His reasoning was excellent, but still a bit inferior to my brother's. I was wondering if I should meet him in the next world. His talent seemed quite interesting too, so—
In the seventh month, I met the director again.
It's one thing in the SSS world, but I don't understand why such a big shot would come to the A-rank world. Is he going crazy? Or is he looking for attention?
As expected, the live stream was cut off again.
"Want to play a game?"
What the hell are you talking about! You shameless, scheming old bastard!
"Don't worry, this time the opponent isn't me." [Director] said expressionlessly. "I want you to kill Jiang Ran of the Dragon Kingdom in the next world. In return, I'll allow you to ask me one question."
"Kill Jiang Ran? What good would that do you?"
A "god" actually orders an ant to kill another ant. Is He doing this for amusement? And even goes so far as to personally descend upon such a lowly world?
"Only after you kill Jiang Ran will you have the right to ask me questions. Besides, I don't recommend that you waste your opportunity on such trivial questions."
Boring? No, I'm very interested.
My younger brother said that Jiang Ran tricked him, and if he were given another chance, he would definitely turn the tables!
Well, I think you'll find another way to get defeated, but it doesn't matter. I told him I'd take action.
"If my brother takes action, there will be no chance of failure!"
Want to talk some more? No, there will be opportunities to meet again in the future. He can't know too much yet.
I'm actually always thinking that maybe there's no such thing as an "IQ lock" in this world. What if this world is fake? Time travel, ghost stories, these are all too unrealistic. Those idiots are more like irrelevant passersby in a dream. If it's a dream, it doesn't matter what the NPCs are like.
I can't lie to myself; this world is absolutely real.
In the eighth month, I entered the SS-level world "Wolf and Sheep Game". The voice of the "Director" rang in my mind. He said that he could give me some help in order to kill Jiang Ran.
"Then help me distort Jiang Ran's judgment first. You should be able to do that, right?"
It's interesting that Jiang Ran didn't figure out the difference between the wolf and the sheep so quickly, but it's clearly not very useful. It's just to verify whether the "director" can intervene in this world.
It's not very useful, that's for sure!
Because, you see, I have no intention of killing Jiang Ran at all!
Hahaha! I finally met a fellow countryman, how could I kill him?
If I do whatever the director tells me to do, then what's the difference between me and a puppet in His hands? I admit that He is stronger than me now, but that doesn't mean He can control me.
The only one who can control me is myself!
Furthermore, it's useless to ask any questions. He only told me to ask, but didn't say he would answer. Isn't wordplay exactly what these guys love to do?
[Director] He wanted Jiang Ran to die, but He didn't personally intervene. Does "God" also have things to worry about?
Or is this not His world, and He cannot fully control this place, and wants me to be His "pawn"?
This chess piece of mine can bite!
The Wolf and Sheep game is a game where only one person can survive. True to the director's nature, the live stream was cut off again. But avoiding those people's eyes and ears is useless. When will I be able to avoid the eyes and ears of the "god"?
The nature of this world dictates that only one of Jiang Ran and I can survive. I can't confront him directly. If I try to overturn the "Director's" plan, the "Director" will simply flip the chessboard. This kind of thing is all too normal.
So, I'm going to take my first step.
Jiang Ran, I want you to kill me, only then can I be "reborn"!
If I don't believe in "God", can I believe in "human beings"?
Jiang Ran, I hope you won't let me down.
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