I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

After finishing the Lao Tan Pickled Cabbage Beef Noodles that might have been stepped on by his aunt, Zheng Li wiped the corners of his mouth.

"Damn it, you're eating instant noodles in the middle of the night. You really don't do any human things at all!"

A roommate who had just finished playing a game smelled the smell and blamed Zheng Lidao.

"You can eat it if you don't like it."

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

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

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

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

It wasn't like he heard a voice calling his name or someone tapped his shoulder.

He just remembered something.

Lu Tian is a director who started out in horror films.

The horror movies he usually makes are scary enough with just the pictures and sounds. Now, if those movies are turned into this kind of virtual reality work, people can put themselves in the movie and explore it themselves.

“Damn it, this is more than just a haunted house, it’s simply a haunted house!”

Zheng Li sighed with emotion.

He studied forensic medicine and had seen corpses before, but Lu Tan's movies were still very scary. Zheng Li couldn't speak until the corpses were there, but those scary things in Lu Tan's movies weren't corpses either!

Those bugs, those squirming and twisted monsters, and those gray statue-like human beings make people tremble with fear. Just one look at them will make people lose their sanity and fall into madness.

If it could be explained scientifically, Zheng Li wouldn't feel scared, but those things are beyond common sense and cannot be understood no matter how hard he thinks about them, and they will have an indelible impact on him.

If people who have not received education and have residual feudal superstitions feel "awe" towards these things, then Zheng Li, who has experienced 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 and analyzed using 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. The worst he could do was to just pause and exit when the time came. Would it still be able to chase me out of the helmet?

He pushed open the door.

crunch

The sound of wood rubbing against each other rang in his ears again. Zheng Li saw a ray of light inside the door. He could not see clearly what was inside. The light scattered like soap bubbles, bursting and flowing continuously.

Zheng Li moved forward and walked into the light.

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

For example, it has now become a [normal] experience state, which means that most of Zheng Li's body perception will be taken over by this helmet. He will not hear the ordinary white noise from the outside world, and his movements in the game world will not be heard. can affect real-world bodies.

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

The experience state changed to [mild] again, and he could vaguely hear the sound of his roommate playing games and yelling. This kind of noise that usually disturbed his dreams made Zheng Li feel very at ease at this moment.

He cut into the game again. At this time, the light had almost dissipated, and Zheng Li found that he was in a room.

"This is?"

He made a sound, and at the same time, Zheng Li suddenly saw that the mottled marks on the table were twisting and rotating at this moment, forming lines of text.

[Some people died, but he is still alive]

When Zheng Li saw the first sentence, he suddenly felt a creepy feeling.

What is this text?

What is this game about?

He saw the words continue, and soon some information was displayed, 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 an abandoned capital!

He had never been to the town of Abandoned Capital, but he had also seen photos taken by others and watched previous live broadcasts. He quickly recognized this ambience of the setting. This was the world of Abandoned Capital.

Moreover, Taoist Heming and the like are things that only appear in abandoned cities.

Zheng Li suddenly became excited.

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

He stretched out his hand and touched the tabletop, and the delicate waxed touch made him tremble in his heart.

There was a damp smell in the air, just like the smell of decay in the abandoned sunken ships that had just been fished 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. Under the dark night, it looked weird and scary.

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

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

It is a survival game, and it seems to be a puzzle game, similar to an escape room.

boom

Zheng Li was suddenly startled by the sound of thunder. The hairs on his back stood up. When he realized that it was thunder, Zheng Li looked out the window and found that outside was a vast forest with only a winding path. It is winding and winding, allowing the car to go down the mountain.

This house is located on a cliff, illuminated by the dense lightning in the dark clouds in the distance, making it scary and strange.

boom

There was another muffled thunder, and the sound was low, as if it resonated with Zheng Li's heartbeat, making him feel throbbing.

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

"gentlemen."

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

He saw an old man with white hair standing at the door, dressed like one of those housekeepers in the movie.

"Is this entering the plot?"

Zheng Li muttered something, but the old man didn't seem to hear it. He saluted to Zheng Li and then spoke.

"They're all already 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 the family of the deceased.

"I want to survive until the end of the Conjuring Night, which means I will spend nine days here?"

"The length of this game is a bit ridiculous."

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

"Something will probably happen on the last day. I came here so early, maybe just to find a way to break the situation. Well, I don't know how intelligent this NPC is. Why don't you ask him first?"

Thinking of this, Zheng Li decided to ask.