You made all the streamers on the internet kneel before you when you were asked to make a game.

"Useless! A bunch of useless trash!"

Gao Qi pointed at Manager Liu's nose and started cursing.

"What's the point of keeping a bunch of you around?"

"Can't even beat a fired piece of trash!"

"Mr. Gao, I...we didn't expect this either...this Hao Ren, he...he's a madman!" Manager Liu said in a trembling voice, "What he's doing isn't a game! It's sorcery!"

"Evil magic?" Gao Qi exclaimed as if he had heard the funniest joke. "Are you trying to tell me that our proud technology was defeated by a charlatan using 'evil magic'?"

He slammed his hand on the table.

"Contact Nebula Platform's legal department! I'm going to sue them!"

"Sue him for unfair competition! Sue him for maliciously manipulating public opinion! Sue him for violating players' right to mental health!"

"Mr. Gao, the Nebula Platform... has rejected us," an assistant whispered.

"What?" Gao Qi's eyes widened in surprise.

"They said... all procedures of 'The Red Veil' comply with federal laws and platform regulations, and the risk warnings before the game starts are also very thorough."

"As for the players' psychological trauma..." The assistant swallowed hard. "They said that the players downloaded and played the game voluntarily, and even... even millions of players signed a petition demanding that the platform not remove the game."

"They...they also said..."

"What did you say?!"

"They said that if Aurora Entertainment felt that its game traffic was being stolen, it could also make a game of the same quality to win back the traffic."

"puff--"

Gao Qi couldn't catch his breath and felt a sweet taste in his throat, almost spitting out blood.

This is humiliating!

Naked humiliation!

The platform's message is clear: if you can't win, don't be a sore loser.

Gao Qi slumped back into his chair, staring at the black-and-white game on the screen.

The Red Veil

For the first time, he truly faced the name.

"Hao Ren..." he murmured the name, his eyes filled with resentment and confusion, "What exactly are you?"

……

What kind of person is Hao Ren?

He is now both loved and hated by players across the internet as a "dog planner" and a "god of the underworld".

But he truly believed he was a "good person".

The popularity of "The Red Veil" has reached an unprecedented level.

Countless derivative works began to emerge.

Someone has turned the suona background music and the paper bride into emojis.

[If you yell again, I'll play the suona for you.jpg]

[The other person doesn't want to talk to you and throws a paper bride at you.gif]

Some people have begun to research the "folk" elements in the game.

"Science Fact: That kind of white paper money was burned for the dead!"

"Shocking! Ancient weddings and funerals had so many rules and regulations!"

"In-depth analysis of the tragic core behind 'The Red Veil': A ghost marriage transcending life and death!"

The players of the Federation, as if discovering a new continent, greedily absorbed these long-forgotten cultural fragments from three hundred years ago.

The more they understand, the more terrified they become.

Because they discovered that the horror in "The Red Veil" was not fabricated out of thin air.

It has roots.

They are rooted in a vast and ancient cultural system that is completely unfamiliar to them.

Many more players, however, became "challengers," rushing into the game one after another in an attempt to solve this "unsolvable problem."

"I refuse to believe it! I will not kneel today!"

"I turned off the stereo. Let's see how it tries to scare me with its background music!"

"I've prepared 100 gigabytes of funny videos. If anything seems off, I'll immediately switch to another app and watch it, keeping a realistic mindset!"

But the result is the same.

Even with the sound system off, the pervasive chill still lingers.

I wasn't looking at the bride, but at the footsteps coming from behind me.

Even if you keep your eyes closed the whole time, the "my lord" whispered in your ear can instantly break your defenses.

Hao Ren's shock value has officially surpassed the 1.5 million mark.

But he wasn't in a rush to release a new game.

He is waiting.

Waiting for the right opportunity.

Once players' fear of "The Red Veil" reaches a certain threshold.

Imitators began to appear in the market.

as predicted.

A week after "The Red Veil" became a hit, a large number of copycat works emerged in the newbie area of ​​the Nebula platform.

"The Red Wedding Dress", "The White Lantern", "The Ghost Bride"...

These games crudely imitate elements of "The Red Veil".

It has the same old houses, the same suona horns, and the same red-clad female ghost.

But at their core, they are still the same system that Federation players are familiar with.

The female ghost will suddenly pounce out from the corner of the screen, opening her blood-red maw.

The sound of the suona is always followed by a piercing scream.

Players can even find guns in these games and spray bullets at the so-called "female ghosts".

As a result, these games not only failed to scare people, but actually amused them.

[Hilarious! This female ghost can teleport? Does she think she's a mutant?]

[This suona sounds like a bugle call; all I want to do when I hear it is grab a Gatling gun and charge forward.]

[They tried to draw a tiger but ended up with a dog! They simply don't understand that the essence of "The Red Veil" is "unreasonableness"!]

These clumsy imitators not only failed to steal the spotlight from "The Red Veil," but instead made it seem even more extraordinary.

Just when players across the internet were beginning to experience aesthetic fatigue with "Chinese horror" and believed that "Red Veil" was the pinnacle of this genre.

The black and white avatar lit up again.

After being silent for half a month, the author "Good Person" posted a new update.

There was no lengthy introduction, just a picture and a sentence.

That's a new game promotional image.

The background is still that gloomy old house, but this time, the focus is no longer on the main hall.

Instead, it was a dark corridor with no end in sight.

At the end of the corridor, in the depths of darkness, there seemed to be something.

At one end of the corridor, on the ground, lay a pair of small, red embroidered shoes.

The shoes were exquisitely crafted, with a pair of lifelike mandarin ducks embroidered on the surface.

But for some reason, looking at these shoes gives me a chill down my spine.

Below the image is a line of text.

"She can't find her way home."

"Put these shoes on and take her home."

[Ding! The new demo "Embroidered Shoes" has been uploaded to the Nebula Games platform and is available for free download.]

The moment this post was published, the entire federal internet came to a standstill.

Everyone's breathing slowed down by half a beat.

He updated!

"Holy crap! That bastard game planner updated it!"

"The Embroidered Shoes? What's that? Is it DLC for The Red Veil?"

"Take her home? Take who home? The bride? I can barely even get back to my own house!"

Countless players flocked to the Nebula Games platform to search for "Embroidered Shoes," and the download button was clicked almost instantly.

The Nebula platform's servers even experienced a slight lag due to the massive influx of traffic.

The programmers responsible for platform maintenance stared in disbelief at the suddenly full red data bar in the backend.

"Damn it... this is just a free demo!"

"The last time we received this kind of treatment was when Aurora Entertainment's 'Biohazard 8' had its global premiere, right?"

"Is it reasonable for an independent developer to allocate all the players in the entire federation to the CPU?"

……

The live stream of Brother Kuangbaolong.

Brother Long is playing a cute casual game with lingering fear, trying to repair his mental world that was ravaged by "The Red Veil".

Suddenly, the chat in his live stream went wild.

[Brother Long! Stop fishing! Your wife updated her social media!]

[The novel "Embroidered Shoes" is out! Hurry up and propose marriage!]

Is it reasonable for the first victim not to be the first to go and play?