Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Fifty years ago, Truth Inc. became one of the newest mega-corporations in the "City That Never Sleeps" through a new alchemical technology called "emotional transformation."

"Emotional energy" has gradually become the most commonly used energy in the entire "city that never sleeps".

At the beginning, the technology of "emotion conversion" was very simple and could only extract human "joy" and "sadness".

"Truth Company" has created one emotion collector after another and provided a large number of entertainment products to the citizens of the "City That Never Sleeps".

Soon, this technology was changing with each passing day, more and more "emotions" could be converted, and the extraction technology became more and more advanced.

The extracted "emotions" were found to be not only usable as "fuel", but also as a variety of materials to be made into machinery and buildings.

The ever-expanding "Truth Company" also began to conduct more in-depth experiments that were not allowed before.

such as……

By developing the emotion called "fear", a substance called "Fear Oil" was obtained.

This is the most "versatile" emotional creation. As fuel, it is the most efficient, and as raw material, it can be transformed into almost any "substance".

It can even disguise itself as "life".

It seems to confirm that statement.

"Fear" is the most instinctive and original emotion deep in the human soul.

But precisely because of this, "fear" is also the most difficult to extract and store. If you are not careful, it will drive people crazy or even die directly.

Moreover, these fears that have condensed into entities even have another function that other materials do not have...

It can "store souls".

It’s more like “imprisonment” than “storage”.

The principle by which this "oil of fear" can disguise itself as life is that it can even perfectly simulate human consciousness.

Therefore, although the two other corporate oligarchs in the "City That Never Sleeps" jointly suppressed "Truth Company" for the first time, forcing "Truth Company" to promise to give up the development of "Oil of Fear".

but……

How could I really give up?

Truth Company would never give up on such an attractive technology with unlimited possibilities.

then……

Outside the "City That Never Sleeps" and outside the Federation, in the endless "Wilderness", in those backward human gathering places, the "Truth Company" began to secretly build an experimental base.

“Winter Mountain” is one of them.

There used to be several human towns and settlements nearby that relied on hunting for a living.

"Truth Company" has set its sights on them.

After all, most of the residents in the wilderness are stupid and short-sighted.

Therefore, several executives and A-level researchers from Truth Company built a complete set of "Oil of Fear" conversion equipment at the foot of the Winter Mountain next to the town, which was always covered by wind and snow, and lied to the outside world that it was an ordinary emotion conversion equipment.

Then, they disguised themselves as nobles and deceived the residents of those towns, saying that there was a precious resource called "Black Gold Oil" in the mountains, which could be exchanged with them for money.

The townspeople who believed the rumors entered the mountain, but were frightened by the "snow monster rumors" spread in advance by the executives of the "Truth Company" and the company's unique "dream-making device", which provided a large amount of "fear" and refined a large amount of fear oil.

This is the plan called "Chat".

but……

What even the executives hadn't anticipated was that although the "Oil of Fear" was nearly omnipotent, it had a fatal flaw that no one had discovered before due to insufficient data.

It has a strong tendency to destroy life and devour souls!

The ability to "store souls" is not its characteristic, but a kind of "instinct"!

Although the Oil of Fear is not a living thing, it is a creation derived from human emotions and has laws that are close to those of life activities.

The fear created by the initial "shock" only frightened and drove the poor innocent townspeople crazy.

But then, the amount of fear oil continued to accumulate... and the situation began to get out of control.

These "materialized" fears even began to affect the operation of the instrument itself.

Among those frightened...

Victims began to appear who died in their sleep or were frightened to death.

And the souls of those people were also taken away by the Oil of Fear - and the sight of these dead souls appearing from time to time further deepened the fear of others who entered Winter Mountain!

All these changes happened so quickly that they were completed in just a few days.

So much so that the senior researchers and executives of "Truth Company" did not react.

They just thought it was an "equipment failure" and were only thinking about "how to solve the problem" and making technical adjustments.

Therefore, this arrogance made these "culprits" pay the price - in a dream, they stayed forever in the base under the snow-capped mountains.

But this "evil will be punished" cannot be called a good thing.

Due to the loss of its maintenance personnel, the machine eventually malfunctioned and leaked - all the emotions and souls of the people it devoured were assimilated, forming the "Oil of Fear" that possessed a certain degree of consciousness and could almost control the entire Winter Mountain - or, it could be called a monster called "Chat".

For the purpose of self-proliferation, this "monster" continuously releases a portion of the Oil of Fear to the surface, maintaining the "scam" previously fabricated by the Truth Company and attracting innocent people to Winter Mountain.

It is very smart and will even allow a small number of people to leave safely with the oil of fear - even if there are no buyers, those small pieces of "black oil" that can allow people to survive the entire winter are enough to attract more people to come here.

After several years of this cycle, the oil of fear continued to grow stronger.

Given time, I'm afraid it will eventually grow to a point where it's completely uncontrollable!

……

On the underground steps, Will Valetti, who was condensed by the oil of fear, and his soul and consciousness trapped inside the oil of fear, told Lin Yu and Forboluo the "truth" of Dongdong Mountain.

"This is a story that fits the style of 'Truth Company,'" Forporro exclaimed. "No wonder we didn't see any real monsters along the way."

Lin Yu also nodded slightly.

It seems that the "scam" and "swindler" that the upgrade mission wants me to find...

The corresponding project should be the "Chat" project and the entire "Truth Company".

only……

Lin Yu still had questions.

He looked at Will Valetti in front of him and asked.

"Why did you tell us all this and lead me here?"

Will Valletti looked at Lin Yu and spoke with a burning gaze.

"I told you... you are very smart. You are the smartest person I have ever met in Winter Mountain."

"So, I think there's hope for you to 'end' this!"