Horror games? Whatever, I'll die.

[Obtained the cursed item: Blazing Eyes]

Even a lamb awaiting slaughter will raise its horns and pierce the butcher's chest.

[Passive effect: Under certain circumstances, one can see through illusions created by ghosts]

[Active Effect: Cursed Flame Burn]

Liang Zaibing was stunned for a while until she received a system notification and realized that she was not only unharmed, but had also picked up a cursed item for free.

Lin Yisen, who had been huddled in the corner, finally came up to ask after her, "Are you alright?"

Liang Zaibing rolled her eyes at him, about to say something to him, when the system notification sounded again.

This instance will soon be permanently closed and will no longer be available to players.

[The copy has been cleared]

[Game settlement in progress...]

Main quest completed.

[Achieve the True Ending: The Lamb's Revenge]

[Completion Rating: S+]

[Reward points: 9000]

[Reward Points: 21600]

Upon seeing the reward points, Liang Zaibing's first reaction was that a viewer owed him a rocket.

We agreed that if we managed to recruit the boss, we'd give him rockets!

Haha, some men's promises are so convincing that even ghosts can't fool them.

Liang Zaibing looked down indignantly, and to his surprise, the diary he had obtained under the butterfly display case was actually taken out of the instance as a prop.

[Item obtained: 077's Diary]

4013.11.09

Today I met a madman who came to my office and told me that not only do ghosts exist in this world, but they also possess a powerful force that humans cannot resist.

Isn't that kind of thing only found in bedtime stories to soothe children?

4013.11.10

I was wrong, he wasn't lying to me, ghosts really do exist!

No, those aren't ghosts, they're practically gods! They can walk through walls, control illusions, teleport—they're omnipotent.

I earnestly begged him to tell me more about the ghosts, but he refused, saying he would give me an answer tomorrow.

God, please let me get closer to this great cause!

4013.11.12

Oh my god, he agreed!

He not only agreed to provide samples for me to study ghosts, but also told me how to artificially create vengeful ghosts.

Although it may seem inhumane, it is an acceptable sacrifice for the sake of science.

The next problem is funding; establishing a new research institute requires a large sum of money.

4013.11.16

These politicians and wealthy businessmen are utterly foolish. If you show them even a fraction of the power of the demon, they'll hand over huge sums of money and give you the green light to build specialized research institutes.

They told me to name the research institute, so I suggested D Research Institute, but those were just trivial details.

All I want to do now is start my research at my institute as soon as possible; that will be groundbreaking.

……

This diary clearly explains the origin of the D Research Institute, but what Liang Zaibing cares about is who the person who told 077 about the existence of the ghost at the beginning was.

Is he the same person who stole his attention, the legendary number one?

But this idea was still too shocking.

If it's really as I suspect, then this instance was created by him. Could a player really do that?

Has this already reached the point of coveting control over horror games?

Liang Zaibing frowned and checked the diary's functions and notes, but all she saw was a jumble of gibberish.

It seems that not only can that person not be mentioned, but it's also a taboo within the system.

Since there was nothing she could do about him for the time being, Liang Zaibing simply put the matter out of her mind and focused on another change on the panel.

[Talent skill has been upgraded]

[Butterfly Hurricane: Causes a major shift in the current plot, the direction of which is unpredictable]

Liang Zaibing's lips twitched. This is outrageous!

What if this plot twist leads him astray?

However, it is quite useful in life-or-death situations, since there is nothing worse than death.

Before long, Liang Zaibing calmed herself down and happily exited the horror game.

-----

Having barely slept for several days in the dungeon, Liang Zaibing fell into a deep sleep as soon as he returned to reality.

When he groggily opened his eyes with his hair all messed up, he belatedly realized that there was someone else in his bed.

Two adult men squeezed onto a 0.8-meter-wide deluxe single bed in the dormitory, and Liang Zaibing almost felt like she was being squeezed into a pie in her dream.

Chen An remained in the same position as in the dungeon, nestled in his arms and fast asleep, like a furry big dog.

Liang Zaibing stiffly tried to pull the male ghost off her, but she startled people first.

"doing what?"

At this moment, Chen An completely shed his murderous aura. Ignoring his bandaged right eye, he looked like a clear-headed but foolish college student.

Liang Zaibing remained silent for a while before finally managing to say, "I think as an adult ghost, you should sleep in your own bed instead of squeezing in with me."

This male ghost had no sense of boundaries whatsoever, and said matter-of-factly, "You feel very warm."

You're warm now, but I'm getting so cold from you that I'm almost catching a cold.

Huang Fang, that idiot, turned the air conditioner to its lowest setting and said that a real man should have the air conditioner set to 16°C. It was already cold, and then he had to hug an ice cube. Liang Zaibing seriously suspected that she was the stupid guy who lay on the ice to catch carp in her past life.

Liang Zaibing said irritably, "Of course, you're dead and I'm alive."

But seeing his right eye covered by gauze, he still couldn't bring himself to scold him, and helplessly pushed him away and got out of bed.

Hearing a noise from the bed, Huang Fang put down his CS game and turned to look. "Brother Bing, you're a real sleeping god. You slept until the afternoon. Your brother has been waiting for you to have dinner together for a long time."

Liang Zaibing gave a perfunctory "hmm," opened the wardrobe, grabbed a change of clothes, and was about to go to the bathroom to wash up when Huang Fang stopped her.

Liang Zaibing stood there holding the basin, watching him, wondering what kind of fart he would come up with this time.

"When did you start wearing colored contact lenses, especially red ones..." Huang Fang leaned closer in surprise, only then confirming that he hadn't misread it. "Wait, why is there only one?"

"It's not colored contact lenses."

"I get it, you must have awakened your Sharingan."

Liang Zaibing was about to tell him about the inhumane surgery in the dungeon when she was so dumbfounded by this idiotic chuunibyou that she silently uttered a single word, "...Get lost."

"Oh," Huang Fang replied with a pitiful expression, and quickly rolled away.

Before Liang Zaibing even stepped into the bathroom, Huang Fang started making a ruckus again, "You brought some random guy back to the dorm?!"

When Huang Fang saw a man climb down from behind Liang Zaibing's bed curtains, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

That's not right. I clearly remember Liangzi going back to the dorm alone, without anyone following her.

Liang Zaibing rolled her eyes at him, letting him figure it out himself, then ignored him and went to take a shower in peace.

Huang Fang was stunned for a full five minutes before he reacted, then burst into a loud, roof-lifting screech, "Aaaaaaahh ...

Huang Fangguang's shouts weren't enough, so he rushed to the bathroom and pounded on the door, yelling, "Brother, you can't just leave me here! There are only two vengeful ghosts and me in this house. I won't live more than five minutes!"

Liang Zaibing was quite cold-blooded and ruthless. "Then you might as well die."