A different world game? A different world game!

Miyakonojo
On the horizon, the afterglow of the setting sun spilled down, and the golden light of dusk filled the sky.

In this modern metropolis filled with towering skyscrapers, there is a dimly lit room in one of the buildings.

In the center of the room stands a high-tech capsule, with blue LED strips surrounding its silver-white body, and some interesting stickers affixed to it.

Suddenly, the machine started, the hatch slowly opened, and with a puff of white smoke, Hong Chen, who was lying inside, opened his eyes.

"Damn the planners, they secretly changed my skills again. I never expected that Clown King could kill me."

The game has launched a holiday-themed instance these past few days.

He took advantage of his free time and played a game.

With his equipment and skills, solo speedrunning should have been a piece of cake.

In the past, the only boss that needed to be taken seriously was the hidden boss of the dungeon, Alyris. The Clown King was usually just used to create laughs, which was a consistent feature every year.

But this year things changed. A silver tree appeared out of nowhere and pierced through me, killing me. What kind of bizarre skill is this?
"Never mind, I'll just order takeout."

Hong Chen placed a random order and picked up his personal terminal to check the game's update announcement.

"Why wasn't it written?"

Did the developers secretly hide a skill? That doesn't make sense.

Normally, if that were the case, the announcement would have used some ambiguous language to mention it briefly, rather than adding the new skill without any prior notice.

However, it was just an announcement after all, and Hong Chen glanced at it twice before paying no further attention. After finishing his takeout, he went back into his gaming pod.

A short while later, the hatch opened again.

Hong Chen opened his eyes and crawled out, looking at his game pod with a confused expression, before taking out his terminal to check.

"It's not a single-player version, is it? I didn't install any experimental plugins either. How could this kind of plot appear in an online game?"
Aren't you afraid of being sanctioned?

It turned out that when he first entered the game and was still in the dungeon, the boss, Alyris, hugged him and said some strange things, making him wonder if he had entered the wrong game and accidentally wandered into the single-player version of the laboratory.

Hong Chen squatted silently next to the game pod, and only stood up after a long while.

"I really miss it. I almost forgot what my house used to look like. That bastard Shadow did do one good thing, actually."

He regained consciousness.

There are too many illogical aspects to this experience.

He possesses a spiritual antibody, and a lazy little fairy resides within his spirit and soul.

Several obviously illogical plot points directly snapped him out of his daze.

Although the Shadow is an evil god, and one of the four gods, it is not considered top-tier among evil gods.

Being in the middle, neither high nor low, ultimately limits one's power.

The shadows tried to trap his mind in the deepest, most hidden dreams, wanting to uncover his secrets.

However, the secret hidden by Kana is extremely complex, and it is no easy task to simulate a scene that is completely flawless.

The fact that it can be simulated to this extent shows that the power of the shadow is already quite formidable.

If the Shadow had used this move in the early stages of my transmigration, or even within five or six years after, I would probably have been doomed.

Because at that time, my career in another world had not yet surpassed my experience in this world; my level was not high enough, and my understanding of the world was not deep enough.

Although she has integrated into the world, she has not yet fully considered herself a member of this world. She is more inclined to "make the best of it" and wants to do something because she has formed a bond with the characters in the story.

But now things are different. When he is trapped in a mental illusion, problems arise in the intertwining of reality and dreams.

As her understanding of the world deepened, Kana has integrated her experiences in the game with her real-life experiences.

The evil god's ability had crossed the line of rules, perfectly simulating his modern urban experiences—a feat of top-tier skill. And indeed, it successfully trapped him in his deepest, most hidden secrets.

However, within the game, due to the similarities, the combination created a huge flaw.

Unfortunately, these flaws were too obvious to him; they seemed real, yet they also seemed fake.

"Based on speculation, the shadow is now digging into my secrets along the mental pathways that have trapped me, and this will take time."

The more engrossed I was in it, the faster he dug; the more lucid I was, the more difficult it became for him to dig.

The current challenge is how to get out of this predicament?

Although he was now conscious, he was unable to escape.

To get out, one must either wait for the shadow to release him on its own, or rely on pressure from the outside world to "kick" him out.

But this was not the result he wanted.

Canna went to such great lengths to inflict a devastating blow on the world stage.

After going through all the trouble to wipe out the evil rats, he never thought he could get rid of the shadow.

For an evil god, a severe blow is an injury that cannot be healed.

This means that a portion of the power of the shadows will be swallowed up by the world, since even the most powerful evil god is no greater than the world itself.

The world has already devoured an external evil god and has experience dealing with local evil gods, so even if the difficulty is increased, it is not impossible.

The shadow cannot kill or severely injure itself; its purpose is to uncover its own secrets.

At this moment, the shadows must also be digging as fast as they can.

Although the flow of time in the spiritual world cannot compare with that in the external world, both are passing by.

If external pressure increases and the shadow is forced to stop digging and kick him out, and he still hasn't uncovered the secret, then all his efforts will have been in vain.

However, the chances of not uncovering secrets from the shadows are extremely slim.

Therefore, once he enveloped Kana and successfully invaded his mental world, he had already succeeded to some extent.

Therefore, what I need to do is to make the shadow actually uncover some "secrets" and make him believe it without a doubt.

Based on my current mental defenses, once the shadow withdraws from my mental world, I will be essentially awake, and the trap set by the outside world will have succeeded.

"Although we were caught off guard, the difference wasn't too great, and there's still room for maneuver."

Kana muttered to himself as he climbed back into the game pod.

After entering the game, he quickly browsed through it.

Sure enough, the characters I interacted with in real life became increasingly illogical in the game.

The most outrageous character is Kana, who, upon first entering the game, is killed by a silver tree that appears while he is playing the game.

Upon entering a second time, the original Kana vanished, and Alyris also changed.

Once fully conscious, Alyris looked almost exactly like her real-life counterpart.

Leilia has also returned to her normal state from being the Blood God's Apostle in the game.

The current situation in the game is more like a mixture of the original game storyline and Kana's real-life experiences.

The parts I experienced seemed somewhat unreal, while the future storylines I hadn't yet experienced in the game were exactly the same as what I had seen in the game before, without any difference.

At this point, the game had progressed to a very late stage.

An idea popped into his mind… (End of Chapter)