Let's give space a touch of Chinese horror!

This time, when Tian Baiwei saw the words "You are dead..." and "Game over..." in large, bloody red letters, she remained calm.

She let out a heavy sigh and took off her gaming helmet.

Her heartbeat seemed to still be caught in the terror of being wrapped and swallowed by the red cloth, and the suffocating feeling of death before she was disconnected seemed to linger in her chest.

This game is really... so exciting!

Tian Baiwei put the gaming helmet aside and turned on her personal computer. She didn't notice that the red light on the gaming helmet, which indicated video recording, was flashing until it turned green after no one had dealt with it.

My computer is overflowing with unread messages, most of which are from the class group chat.

Tian Baiwei opened the 99+ unread messages.

The class group chat was very lively.

Tian Baiwei scrolled up and found that the topic started with Fang Haoyu complaining in the group that the game they were playing was trash, while other classmates who weren't playing the game with them were curiously watching and asking questions.

Tian Baiwei only found out what Fang Haoyu had experienced in the game after seeing the chat history.

"The NPCs in that game are absolutely insane!!!"

The exclamation marks in the message clearly showed how agitated Fang Haoyu was.

"Before I entered, the NPC clearly stated that there was a red cloth in his room!"

"And what happened? After I walked in, that NPC completely changed his tune! He said I'd have to dye the red cloth myself if I wanted it!"

"Fine, I'll dye it... I figured this might be part of the quest, but look! I've already dyed the red cloth perfectly, but the NPC keeps nitpicking, saying it's not red enough, and keeps telling me to go back and dye it again!"

"I dyed it five or six times! That NPC is still not satisfied! Isn't this obviously nitpicking?! I'm not doing this anymore!"

"And then...and then..." the other students asked eagerly. Their feelings were completely different from Fang Haoyu's; this unique game task had clearly piqued their interest.

"Then--"

"Then I was pushed into a water tank and drowned!"

"Huh?" The other students were puzzled. "You didn't resist?" That shouldn't be the case... You were just pushed into the water tank. It's not difficult to break free from the NPC's control and escape...

"If I could break free, why would I still call this game trash!"

Fang Haoyu was so angry that he forwarded the voice message: "This trash game is inescapable, that's why I'm cursing it!"

"When that NPC puts his hand on your back, all your strength will be drained away, and you will have no way to resist."

He tried his best but could only keep his head above water, but the NPC quickly pushed him back under.

One after another, and another...

Fang Haoyu didn't want to recall the despair he felt at that time.

Especially at that time, the NPC was standing next to the water vat, smiling and saying things like, "The cloth dyed this way will be red enough"... things that gave him the creeps.

"Wow!" The other students exclaimed in surprise, "That sounds like a certain death..."

"That's why I say this game is trash! Making every mission have an inevitable death ending—what else could it be but trash!"

Soon after, Gao Yang, who had also exited the game, joined the battle and echoed Fang Haoyu's words.

The other classmates were very curious: "Gao Yang, did you 'die' too (in the game)? How did you 'die'?"

Tian Baiwei was also very curious about this. She automatically skipped over the news about Gao Yang's rant about the game and went straight to Gao Yang's account of the cause and course of his death:

"I heard the sound of fingernails scratching a wooden board coming from under the bed in the middle of the night."

"Under the bed?"

Not only was Fang Haoyu in the group surprised, but Tian Baiwei in front of the screen also raised her eyebrows in surprise.

If she remembered correctly, Fang Haoyu and Gao Yang's room, like theirs, didn't have anything under the bed...

Where did the sound Gao Yang heard come from?

"You didn't hear me wrong, did you?" Fang Haoyu had obviously realized this as well, and repeatedly confirmed with Gao Yang in the group chat, which successfully annoyed Gao Yang.

"How could I be wrong when I heard it with my own ears?! That sound was right next to my ear, it even woke me up!"

"I even got out of bed to look for it!"

"But the sound mysteriously disappeared when I got out of bed."

"I was about to go back to sleep, but as soon as I turned over, the sound of fingernails started again."

"But this time the sound didn't come from the bed, it came from behind me, from the table."

table?

Upon seeing this keyword, Tian Baiwei suddenly had a guess. Sure enough, she saw Gao Yang continue, "I went over to take a look and found that the sound was coming from the box I had thrown under the table."

"But just as I got closer to the box to see what was making the sound, I was grabbed by a hand."

"Hands?" Other students in the group who were listening to the story asked one after another, "Where did the hands come from?"

Gao Yang typed several exclamation marks in a row: "I want to know too! Why did a hand suddenly pop out of that box!"

"There was no way to break free from that hand; she just pulled me into that box!"

He still remembers the immense pain he felt when he was dragged into the cramped box, his bones feeling like they were being broken and his body being folded and compressed. He even suspected that he couldn't bear the intense pain and simply disconnected from the game.

Tian Baiwei, sitting in front of the screen, shuddered as she looked at Gao Yang's words, which seemed to be written in tears.

She couldn't help but feel a little fortunate that she had run fast enough the first time she played. Although... she soon ran into trouble with the village chief, being hit with a stick... was much better than being dragged into the little box and dying.

Originally, this topic about Gao Yang should have ended here.

But then Geng Yao appeared.

Yes, it was Geng Yao who appeared first.

Tian Baiwei specifically looked through the group chat and found that Yan Junchi hadn't appeared in the group before Geng Yao appeared.

Could it be...?

Tian Baiwei thought with some ill intent: Could it be that Yan Junchi is trying to create the illusion that he has not failed to pass the level?

After all, there is no social system in this game, and once you leave the game, people outside the game cannot re-enter the same game, so they cannot see the status of their previous teammates. If Yan Junchi really wanted to hide it, he might actually be able to fool them.

But Geng Yao was too kind-hearted to resist: "I remember your rooms... like ours, don't have beds under the beds, right?"

As she spoke, she earnestly sought confirmation from Yan Junchi: "@Yan Junchi, are you right?"