I, enter the zero world, change the ending

I, enter the zero world, change the ending

Author: Aestheticism

Summary:

By accident, the boy traveled to the world of a horror game. Due to his resistance to the ending of the series, he decided to make things better.

I didn't agree to be your wife

Bai Ju: Go to hell, perverted lolita control

Kurosawa Saeki: Are you sure you want me? Will you really not regret it?

Kuze Reika: It's a bit whimsical, but I like it, haha

Kurosawa Aise: If you want to be with me, then marry me in the afterlife and fall with me

Hinasaki Shinku & Amakura Mio: So what...

(Zero, Zero, Red Butterfly, Voice of Tattoo, Mask of Eclipse, Priestess of Crows)

Volume One

Chapter 1: [Traveling to the Wild Mountains]

Zhiyao is a 20-year-old college student. He has always disliked his name since he was a child because the character "Yao" in his name is mostly used to name women. In fact, he is a real man, and a straight man who has to cut his hair once a month for the convenience of washing his hair.

Because of his name, he was often teased by his friends and he thought about changing his name more than once.

Even if the pronunciation is the same, at least Yao should be changed to other homophones.

However, his parents were unexpectedly stubborn in this regard, and he had no say in the matter when he was a child. When he became an adult and could make the decision, he was reluctant to let go of this word because it had been with him for almost twenty years. So the matter was delayed again and again, and finally it was simply put on hold.

It was two o'clock in the morning, and there was a chilly wind outside, and it was dead silent.

In a room of a rental house, only the monitor was still emitting a faint blue light.

That was Zhiyao, who lived alone in a rented house outside the university.

At this moment, Zhiyao's eyes were fixed on the monitor screen, and her mood was as complicated and winding as a maze.

He had just finished a horror game a few minutes ago, the fifth installment in his beloved Zero series, The Crow's Priestess. He watched Kurosawa Aise and Furugata Yuri sink to the bottom of the ocean together, the sound of Higanbana playing in his ears, and before he knew it, he, too, was enveloped in a melancholy atmosphere.

As usual, every game of this series has a good ending and a bad ending, but why did it happen to be a bad ending?

Xili committed suicide by jumping into the sea, so it should be... a bad ending.

The more he listened, the more depressed he felt. He thought that this couldn't be such a hasty ending. Zhiyao exited the full-screen game, opened the browser and started searching for a guide for a good ending. He had just opened the guide page and read part of the content when he suddenly remembered that he had classes tomorrow morning and had to get up early.

The last chapter would take at least half an hour. Considering that he might not be able to get up if he didn't go to sleep, he had to reluctantly turn off the computer, wash up quickly, and get into bed, putting aside all distractions and forcing himself to fall asleep as soon as possible.

If, if I could, I really want to stop Xili...

That was the last information remaining in his mind before he fell asleep.

……

At some point, as the cold wind blew across his face, Zhiyao suddenly opened his eyes. Having just woken up, his brain was temporarily in a state of shutdown. He subconsciously sat up and looked around, rubbing his eyes repeatedly. Then, as his vision gradually cleared, his brain shut down again.

where is this?

There is grass and dirt under your butt.

Where are you?

There were no concrete walls around, but lush vegetation and a dark jungle with shockingly low visibility.

What is going on? Am I dreaming?

This was the first thing that came to his mind.

Due to some physiological mechanism, people who are dreaming are usually unaware that they are dreaming. Zhiyao thought so at this time. He stood up and looked around. After a moment, he was completely confused about the situation.

Regardless of whether it’s a dream or not, let’s try it first like in movies and TV shows.

Thinking of this, Zhiyao took a deep breath, pinched her left and right cheeks with both hands, and pulled them out suddenly the next second.

"Ah, it hurts!"

It was indeed painful, and the surrounding scenery did not change at all. Unwilling to believe it, he slapped himself hard again. Even though his face was almost crooked, the surroundings were still exactly the same.

Very good, it seems that I am not dreaming. Then a new question arises: how could I appear here for no reason when I was sleeping on the bed in the room?

Was he sleepwalking? But he couldn't possibly have run that far, so was he kidnapped?

He vaguely remembered seeing on the news a body dumped somewhere in the wilderness after anesthetized patients had their kidneys removed. Suddenly, he broke out in a sweat. Zhiyao quickly lifted her shirt to check her stomach, confirming there were no wounds there and that she felt no pain anywhere. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's a good thing that you are safe and sound... but that's just a blessing in disguise.

Zhiyao's head was in a mess at this moment because she was confused about the situation.

He has too many confusions.

At this moment, a strange wolf howl came from the dark forest in the distance. In an instant, all the hairs on Zhiyao's body stood up.

"What, what's going on..."

While muttering to himself, Zhiyao's forehead began to sweat and he found that his teeth were trembling. He clenched his teeth tightly and pinched his arms to force himself to calm down. Then, driven by the instinct of survival, he began to search everywhere. Soon he picked up a sharp stone as a self-defense weapon.

"Damn it, please... please don't really come over here..."

At that moment, he prayed helplessly in his heart. He was half an atheist, but he prayed to all the gods he knew.

Thinking that if it was a pack of wolves, stones alone would be of no use, Zhiyao stayed there for a while, then looked around and slowly groped his way in the opposite direction of the sound. Since he didn't bring any lighting tools, and the moon was often obscured by thick clouds, Zhiyao tripped over something and fell while walking.

He subconsciously looked over there, and the next moment, his heart almost stopped beating.

Even though there was only dim moonlight in the night, the strange paleness still allowed him to see clearly that the person who tripped him was a human corpse, the kind with only the torso remaining, with no limbs.

It was the middle of the night, in the wilderness, dark and gloomy, with a pack of wolves behind them and an unidentified corpse in front of them.

The young man, who was only twenty years old, was completely frightened.

"Uh ...

He immediately got up and ran aimlessly in a certain direction. Even if he tripped, he seemed to forget the pain and continued to get up and run until he was out of breath, until his strength was running out, until a soft fire appeared in front of him, like a timely help.

He immediately held his chest and coughed slowly, Zhiyao dragged his almost numb legs towards the fire. As the distance got closer, a smile of surviving a disaster finally broke out on his face.

In front of him was a mansion, covering an area of ​​several hundred square meters. Although it was unclear why it was built in such a place far away from the metropolis, at least it was a building inhabited by humans. Zhiyao understood that this was a mansion passed down from the ancestors of a certain family, and the fire at the door indicated that there were people living inside.

Great.

Like a long drought finally ending in rain, Zhiyao couldn't wait and headed towards the gate of the mansion.

But I never thought that the moment I got close, something suddenly flashed through my mind, followed by the alarm bells ringing in my head.

Only then did he stop and look up at it carefully.

Ah, this...why does it feel familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere.

That shouldn't be the case. I've lived in cities since I was a child, and even in the few times I've traveled, I've never seen similar buildings.

But why does it feel familiar? What’s going on?

He just stood there frozen in place, his thoughts wandering into the ocean of memories, not missing any clues.

Until a certain picture came to my mind late one night a few years ago.

He was in his first year of high school at the time. One night during the summer vacation, he was browsing the Internet and accidentally saw a horror game called Zero. He then downloaded it and opened the first part.

【ZERO】

You know what... the more I look at this mansion, the more it looks like the Himuro residence...

In fact, he didn't remember it very clearly, because several years had passed and the full picture of Himuro Mansion rarely appeared in the game.

"Ahahaha, how could it be the Himuro residence? That's a game, a world that doesn't exist at all." He smiled awkwardly and slowly convinced himself.

By the way, maybe it’s the real-life filming location of the Himuro residence in the game. I heard that many scenes in that game have real-life references, which would explain why they look exactly the same.

"Yes, it's probably a coincidence."

As for the filming location of Himuro Residence in Neon, how I got there, let’s put it aside for now.

As the idea gradually took shape in his mind, Zhiyao's fear began to slowly fade away. Calming himself down, he quickly stepped forward and raised his hand to knock on the door.

We have to contact the people inside and call the police immediately. Finding a body in the forest is no joke. Surprisingly, after knocking for a while, there was no movement from inside.

"Is anyone there————!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, repeating it several times, but still no one responded. "This is weird, there's a light on at the door, so why is there no one there? Could it be that they heard me but thought I was a bad guy and didn't dare to answer?"

Feeling anxious and frustrated, Zhiyao reached out and grabbed the door handle as if possessed.

"click"

The door was opened unexpectedly, and Zhiyao was stunned on the spot.

The front was dim and the smell of rotten wood mixed with moss hit his face. It seemed that he was wrong. At least from the scene before him, it didn't look like anyone lived here, and it had been like that for a long time.

I thought I had found hope, but the reality was disappointing. I thought I had met a wealthy family, but when I opened the door, I found a dilapidated old house that had been uninhabited for a long time.

So what should I do next? There are definitely wild beasts and unidentified corpses in the forest behind, and the old house in front of me...

Although Zhiyao still firmly believed that Bingshi Mansion was fictional, at least the ancient house in front of him really existed and looked particularly creepy, which made him dare not take it lightly in any way.

Unconsciously, his heart began to beat faster and faster. The more he thought about it, the more horrified he became. He suddenly closed the door he had opened.

It’s better to just stay where you are. Even if ghosts probably don’t exist in the world, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Turning his neck to look around, Zhiyao's gaze moved from far to near, and unconsciously fixed on the lantern by the door. He carefully removed the cover, and the soft firelight came into view.

Finally, he found a solution.

Twenty minutes later, as the flames shot up into the sky, the surroundings were illuminated as brightly as day.

Sitting by the fire, Zhiyao carefully calculated how long the piled branches could burn, and his mood gradually calmed down. He thought, let it be for now. The beasts will not dare to approach the campfire. If they get close, I will use the burning sticks to hit them. If I really can't drive them away, I will go to the old house behind me to take shelter.

Hugging his knees, the young man gazed at the blazing fireworks, a smile on his face. But soon, fatigue drove him to his side, and even his vision was blurring. He knew he couldn't let his guard down, but he really wanted to sleep. During a stressful time, people are highly tense, and once they relax, they will fall asleep.

Gradually, his eyelids began to close uncontrollably, and at the last moment before they closed, a white human silhouette appeared in the darkness in the distance, like a midnight ghost in the dark. At this point, the young man shuddered, and all his sleepiness disappeared. He stood up, pulled out a burning wooden stick, and his eyes were extremely alert.

Chapter 2: [Hinasaki Mafuyu]

Hinasaki Mafuyu felt very strange. He didn't understand why there was a blazing fire in front of the door of Himuro's residence, and why there was a young man holding a wooden stick next to it.

With a head full of questions, he gradually quickened his pace.

On the other side, Zhiyao's gaze was also fixed on Hinasaki Mafuyu, and as he got closer, the strength of his grip on the wooden stick increased.

Hinasaki Mafuyu, born in 1965, is currently 21 years old.

I vaguely remember that on the 8th of this month, September 9th, Mafuyu learned from an acquaintance at the publishing house that his mentor, Takamine Junsei, had gone to Himuro's residence with two assistants to collect materials. After that, there was no news or response from him for many days. Then, on September 8nd, the news bulletin published the news that his mentor had disappeared.

As a frontline employee who has been active in a magazine publishing house for a long time, Madoka has access to a lot of gossip that is unknown to the outside world but widely circulated among colleagues, including but not limited to various urban legends, including the destination that Takamine Junsei is heading to this time - Himuro Residence.

According to legend, the Himuro residence was a large family in this country in the last century. However, due to an accident, all the people inside died mysteriously overnight. Since then, the place has been shrouded in the resentment of the dead and the miasma of the underworld for many years, and has been completely isolated from the outside world.

Everyone who entered the Himuro residence died, and the only survivor insisted that he saw a ghost inside.

Something must have happened to Mr. Takamine, Mafuyu thought as she watched the news bulletin. Two days later, unable to wait for news any longer, Mafuyu dug out an old camera from home, said to be able to photograph the invisible. She left a letter for her younger sister and set out on a journey to find her mentor.

As the distance between them gradually shortened, Madoka stopped and the two of them maintained a distance of two meters between them.

"Who are you?" Zhiyao frowned slightly, her vigilance evident in her words.

"Hello..." Mafuyu blinked and shifted her gaze to the stick in the other person's hand.

At first glance, it seemed that the two people, one speaking Japanese and the other speaking Chinese, could not communicate at all. Fortunately, Zhiyao was a college student majoring in Japanese, and her parents forced her to enroll in a Japanese tutoring class in her first year of high school. Through years of hard work, even if she still did not pass the N1 exam, at least her daily listening, reading and writing were no longer a problem.

The other party didn't seem to have any malicious intentions and was even proactive in showing goodwill, so Zhiyao naturally had to respond politely.

"Hello." He replied in Japanese, and he inexplicably felt that the other person's image was very similar to a game character, especially when combined with the old house behind him that looked like the Himuro residence.

He looks like Hinasaki Mafuyu.

Zhiyao couldn't help but think so, of course, he wouldn't say it out loud, because he firmly believed that the Himuro residence was fictional. Besides, the three-dimensional face with distinct features in front of him was a little different from the facial modeling of Hinasaki Mafuyu in the game. At most, it could only be considered 90% similar.

Zhiyao watched intently, staring at Manfuyu's face. Before long, Manfuyu interrupted him with a polite cough and asked a question:

"You're alone?"