Miss Hero Must Die

Latilia was completely dumbfounded...

No, I still have this thing in my house.

Latilia immediately thought of her unreliable parents.

It seems they've been hiding this scroll here all along; no wonder they haven't said anything...

She could already imagine herself passing the exam to become a messenger and then going home to mock her parents' embarrassment.

Just as Latilia was lost in thought, the scroll in her hand vanished instantly.

……

Ke Qi hesitated for a moment, then lifted the strange scroll in his hand and compared it with the scene in front of the computer.

I discovered that the spool in my hand was indeed exactly the same as the one inside...

As Ke Qi was pondering, the scroll instantly transformed into specks of light, which surged into the back of Ke Qi's hand, creating a silver pattern.

"This game has serious problems... The previous 1MB version should have had this bizarre open world, which looked like a real world and allowed you to extract things from it..."

Ke Qi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

He couldn't believe his suspicions and, like a machine, took out his phone.

Dial Li Zhou.

"Beep beep beep, the number you dialed is not being answered..."

A knot of unease settled in Ke Qi's heart.

"So, what about Aki-chan?"

Ke Qi rarely calls Qiu Jiang; he only calls her when he wants to discuss serious matters.

Such as contracts for videos, and some related content.

Ke Qi dialed Qiu Jiang's number.

"Beep beep beep, the number you dialed is not being answered..."

Ke Qi forced himself to calm down.

"This game is really weird. If nothing unexpected happens, Li Zhou and Qiu Jiang are dead by now..."

"Game characters are inextricably linked to players; if they die inside, they will die outside too..."

Ke Qi silently watched the girl inside, who was staring blankly into space.

Ke Qi's fate is now inextricably linked with that of the girl before him.

Every choice you make in the game will truly affect your fate.

Ke Qichu noticed something amiss, so he turned off the game, sat down in a chair, and waited for the police to arrive.

……

"Name?"

"Ke Qi..."

"age?"

"nineteen……"

"Li Zhou drowned himself in the bathtub in his own bathroom. Do you know what happened?"

Just as Ke Qi was about to lay everything out and see how the organization could help him...

A sharp pain shot through my arm.

A strange thought flashed through my mind.

die……

This is "The Hero's Chronicle of Annihilation in the End Times".

The function is: Every three days, a death warning will be issued to help the hero make the right choice.

Ke Qi felt like a completely different person and was extremely surprised.

"I don't know what happened. How could Li Zhou commit suicide...?"

Sitting in front of Ke Qi was a silver-haired girl with hair falling over her shoulders. She wore black gloves and a simple suit. Her face was very elegant, but there was a scar on her left cheek that ran downwards.

"Tell me in detail what happened between you and Li Zhou recently..."

Ke Qi's expression did not seem feigned.

"Li Zhou and I have recently been helping Qiu Jiang, a popular content creator with millions of followers, with her game. I'm in charge of editing, and he's in charge of playing the game. He told me about a fun game, and then he went to play it by himself..."

The silver-haired girl examined him for a moment and then agreed with Ke Qi's words.

"You can go now..."

After Ke Qi left, dozens of experts and various other people came out from behind the one-way mirror.

A bespectacled man asked with some curiosity:

"Is he telling the truth?"

The silver-haired girl gently removed her gloves, revealing two hands that were already decaying and dead.

"By the God of Honesty and Decay, I have just used a Sequence 9 level lie detector, and what he said is true..."

"All information about 'The Lies of Notia' will be blocked, otherwise we could listen to the phone messages from the carrier."

"It seems this incident doesn't involve him... We've recruited half the players across the country, so we can ignore some of the clandestine organizations..."

The man with the eyes sighed softly.

"When will we finally find and kill the hero player...? Heroes should just obediently die..."

……

Ke Qi returned to his home in a daze.

The silver patterns on his wrist are still burning hot.

That state just now...

Ke Qi didn't know how he did it.

It's like a survival instinct...

"The Hero's Chronicle of World Destruction in the End Times..."

"Every three days, a death warning will be issued to help the brave choose the right option..."

"So, was that the right choice...? If I had told everyone, I would have died..."

Ke Qi looked at the computer that was booting up.

"Why would the authorities do this? Shouldn't they have formed an alliance or some kind of supernatural organization to protect me...?"

"The hero's power shouldn't be that I am the hero, but that Latilia is the hero..."

Ke Qi knew that he had to continue his travels to uncover the secret.

Fate left him no room to retreat.

Without hesitation, Ke Qi opened the game again. This time, he didn't enter the game directly, which seemed to be the first time.

What came into Ke Qi's view was a scene in Latilia's bedroom. She was sitting at her desk, writing something. Her red bangs fell cutely in front of her eyebrows, and her doll-like face was delicate and adorable.

There is an option in the very center: "Start Game".

There are other options below.

【announcement】

[World (Unlocked at Level 1)]

[Strategy Guide (Unlocked at Level 1)]

[Trade (Unlocked at Level 2)]

Ke Qi hesitated for a moment before opening the announcement.

[Current version: Ver_0.24]

[Public Beta Requirements - Defeat the Hero]

[After defeating the hero, you will gain the favor of the gods, your game level will always be the highest, and you will obtain the artifact - Demon King's Wings]

[After defeating the hero, the open beta version will officially launch, and the player level cap will be raised from level 15 to level 25. The next version will also raise the player level cap.]

[After defeating the hero, the game's storyline—the epic tale of Aurora's catastrophe—will unfold, updating the demon faction, adding steam sequences, more cults, and revealing more secrets from the past.]

[After defeating the hero, more player features will be unlocked. Stay tuned...]

"???"

"Six hundred and sixty-six. Some novel protagonists are just being dramatic, but I've been marked by all the players. I probably don't qualify as a hero..."

"But Latilia is a hero! If I kill her, I'll die too... 666, I've been tricked by the gods... The hero wasn't chosen by you, why are you killing her...?"

Ke Qi's mind was in turmoil. He suddenly realized that if it weren't for the Hero's Scroll, he would have been killed by that organization disguised as an official.

"Killing the hero brings so many benefits... can I just commit suicide...?"