[Initiating scan, preparing to load program…]
[Scan failure. Error code: 0x00069s]
[Analyzing error cause…]
A series of strange messages appeared in the darkness before Luo Shu's eyes.
Before he could react, the darkness around him brightened abruptly as a green data stream flooded his vision.
Mixed within were eerie red symbols, glaringly conspicuous against the cascade of numbers.
These symbols weren't numbers, nor were they any characters Luo Shu could recognize.
Was it just a trick of the mind? The red symbols seemed almost alive… twisting, like wriggling worms.
Suddenly! An emergency alert popped up in the dense waterfall of data!
[Anomalous Code Detected!]
[Anomalous Code Detected!!]
[Anomalous Code Detected!!!]
Luo Shu had no idea what was happening. Slowly regaining consciousness, he felt as though he were waking from a deep dream.
'Wait a minute! Wasn't I just dissecting a lab mouse implanted with a tumor back at school?!'
'Could this be…'
'That game?!'
In an instant, Luo Shu understood—he'd been "chosen"!
This was Horror Game!
Half a year ago, a supernatural game called Horror Game began appearing in the world. People worldwide started disappearing in front of countless witnesses, only to reappear in a mysterious game world.
These "disappeared" individuals became players, forced to enter treacherous, nightmarish levels.
Players had to rely on their own skills to survive, grow stronger…
Or die trying!
Outside, the Horror Game app mysteriously showed up on every device—computers, phones—everywhere. Anyone could log in to watch terrifying recordings or even live streams of these missing people in the game world.
As supernatural forces encroached on reality, Horror Game brought with it the harsh reality of death, casting a shadow of despair over the globe. Though the chance of being chosen was slim, it still led to widespread panic.
At this moment, Luo Shu felt a twinge of nervousness.
As a second-year med student buried in his studies, he'd only occasionally checked out a few game replays on the Horror Game app.
One recording showed a team mission set in an ancient parallel world, where mobs of mountain ghouls and phantom demons devoured nearly everyone!
Out of seven, only two survived!
That viewing had convinced Luo Shu that if an average med student like himself got chosen for this game, things would likely go south fast.
With this thought, his "nervous yet fearful" self couldn't help but laugh quietly to himself.
Luo Shu's personality was not normal, though he didn't realize it.
His parents had been researchers of prehistoric civilizations. For years, their work had gone nowhere—until his mother became pregnant. Then, they made a remarkable discovery: an ancient civilization deep beneath the ocean.
There, they found an altar of bones, countless twisted, monstrous statues, and indecipherable alien script.
Not long after Luo Shu was born, both his parents gradually lost their sanity and died under mysterious circumstances.
As for Luo Shu, he seemed unaffected—normal and healthy.
Yet a unique supernatural meme had already infected him.
In the outside world, this eerie power remained subtle, manifesting mainly in one way—he lacked a normal sense of fear.
Fear, instead of paralyzing him, would make him unusually excited. Under extreme fear, his cognitive abilities would accelerate exponentially!
Here, it manifested as the Anomalous Code.
The data stream surged on for a while. Eventually, the bizarre red symbols distorted and faded, seemingly slipping past the system's detection.
As the data stream disappeared, a few lines of text appeared:
[Congratulations! You've been chosen as a beta player in Horror Game!]
[Username: Luo Shu]
[User Level: Lv1]
[Current Experience: 0/100]
Luo Shu noted several locked sections under his personal stats, like his equipment slot and inventory.
[Entering Tutorial Mission. Please prepare…]
[You will regain control of your body.]
Luo Shu suddenly felt his body again!
A raspy voice, eerie and almost androgynous, whispered in his ear:
"Welcome to Horror Game…"
He knew—the game had begun!
The mission menu opened before him.
[Tutorial Mission: Eradicate the Threat.]
The mission text flashed for a few seconds, then disappeared. Luo Shu focused and found he could call it back at will—a rather neat trick.
"No mention of what the 'threat' actually is… looks like they're just trying to scare us players," he muttered. "It's probably some monstrous thing."
Compared to most first-timers, Luo Shu was disturbingly calm.
Almost too calm.
He detected a faint scent of iron in the air.
"Blood? Hmm… not surprising."
Carefully feeling around, he noticed the cramped surroundings, likely a small storage room.
His hand found a switch, and with a click, the light turned on.
In the full-length mirror directly ahead, a figure in a blue surgical gown, wearing a medical mask, stared back at him.
It was him.
He had vanished before everyone's eyes, entering the game world whole and fully equipped, still wearing his surgical gown from the mouse dissection earlier.
After a brief glance, he turned away from his reflection.
He realized he was in a storage room, filled with various medical supplies—disposable gloves, surgical tools, and a haphazard stack of boxes labeled in English.
Ahead was a simple wooden door.
"I've heard these game worlds are custom-tailored," he mused, "Judging by this setup, it's keyed to my background in medicine…"
After a moment's hesitation, he grabbed the door handle and pulled it open.
The tutorial mission was meant to be a guide; the truly dangerous levels lay further in, so there was no need to worry just yet.
But the instant the door opened!
A thick, metallic scent flooded his senses.
Luo Shu instantly felt a thrill (and excitement) rising within him!
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