nightmare space

In the silent corridor, Xu You suddenly heard footsteps.

Take it easy, stay calm.

He looked towards the end of the corridor extending into the darkness, and a human figure gradually appeared.

Messy black hair, a pair of black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose.

"...Ke Junli?" Xu You looked at it for a while, then shouted with some uncertainty.

The temperament of this person and the player he met before has changed drastically.

"It's me." Ke Junli, who was too lazy to pretend anymore, was expressionless.His eyes were fixed on the human head, and his hands that held the poker tightened.

Exit, right there.

Xu You didn't foolishly ask him why he was here.He knew in his heart that looking at Ke Junli like this, he might be an old player like Luo Ji, who deliberately concealed his strength before.

I don't know why they have this habit...

"Xu You," Ke Junli was still staring at the head in the skull's mouth, his voice sounded unusually calm, "The exit of this crematorium is in the skull's mouth."

"What?!" Xu You thought he heard it wrong.

"Look at that head."

"..." After reading it, it seems that there is nothing unusual.

"This is Ji Wuran's head."

"Ji Wuran?" Could it be the girl in red that I met before?

"Yes. Based on what I know about her, unless she commits suicide, she cannot die."

"so?"

"If you want to get out, you have to commit suicide."

"..." What kind of divine logic is this? !

Xu You looked at Ke Junli as if he was looking at a snake.How could suicide get out of this crematorium, not to mention that he had found a bronze key that was suspected to be the exit key...

Seeing that Xu You didn't believe his words, Ke Junli didn't respond.He stepped forward and used the tongs to pick Ji Wuran's head out of the skull's mouth.The blood-stained head whirled around on the ground a few times, and stopped when it touched the corner of the wall.The unsettled eyes protruding from the hair seemed to be staring at Xu You.

It was very uncomfortable to be looked at by those eyes, Xu You changed his position and stood there.He just wanted to see what Ke Junli wanted to do now.

"Since you don't believe what I said," Ke Junli said, took off the glasses, folded the temples and put them in the pocket of the shroud, "then I will show you a demonstration."

He looked at the size of the skeleton's open mouth, then stuck his head in, and it was stuck right in it.Xu You looked terrified, always feeling that the skull was going to bite his neck into pieces in the next second.

Thankfully nothing has happened so far.

Immediately afterwards, holding the fire tongs in his hand, he slapped his throat fiercely.The weight of the strike is staggering.

Xu You was dumbfounded.

The poker pierced the fragile throat of the human body, and hung on the neck with ticking blood.Ke Junli's hands were hanging down weakly, and his legs were about to kneel and sit on the ground as soon as they softened.But his head was stuck in the mouth of the skeleton, and the whole person hung there.

"..." If he really wanted to commit suicide like this, it would be too bloody and brutal.

The skull moved.

Its mouth closed, and its bloody throat was completely severed.Ke Junli's body slid down the wall slowly, and then gradually became transparent in front of Xu You.The skull's mouth opened again, and what was biting now was Ke Junli's head.

There is no other way... Do you have to commit suicide?

Xu You hesitated.

He thought of himself who was burned to death, the white space when he woke up, and Qi Yue.

— "As long as the bandages are on, you'll be fine."

He raised his left hand and looked at the bandages wrapped around it.This should be the bandage wrapped around Qi Yue's eyes.

Then, try it.

Xu You, who didn't want to stay in this nightmare space anymore, made up his mind.

He picked Luo Ji's head out of the skull's mouth with a dagger, and stuck it between the upper and lower jaws.It felt weird, like wearing a headgear that was just the right size.

[Atonement] on the right hand, the tip of the knife has reached the heart.

I don't know if Qi Yue thought about this dagger when he gave it to him, that one day he would use it to commit suicide.

He distracted himself with unhealthy thoughts in his mind, and then stabbed himself.

The sin that everyone is born with is called "original sin".Atonement, capable of inflicting a great deal of damage on all things that harbor sin.So in theory, he would die.

The expected pain hit, but Xu You felt a sense of relief.

"Quest 'Find the exit to the crematorium' completed.

The nightmare game missions are all completed.

Number of participants remaining: 0

The conditions are met, the nightmare is over"

A beep sounds.

Before Xu You lost consciousness, he suddenly thought of Luo Ji who had disappeared for no reason.

Is this person no longer in the nightmare space of the crematorium...

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Xinyi Internet Cafe, in front of a certain computer.

The faint light of the computer screen reflected the young man's face.Unlike most of the people in the Internet cafe, his expression was not at all happy, but rather serious.

Coming out of this nightmare space, Xu You thought of a way to avoid the game's detection.Although you can't directly search for information about this game on the Internet, it should be no problem to find the names of people.

He started to investigate the people he met in the first nightmare space, and found that all the people who died in the game also died in reality due to various unnatural accidents.

Car accident, drowning, jumping off a building, sudden death...

The more I looked, the more shocked.

And those who survived in the nightmare space actually died.Oddly enough, their deaths have one thing in common: they were all suicides.

When Xu You found "Qi Yue", he was surprised to find that it was a vegetable.Compared with the photos, they are [-]% similar.

Scanning the information on the webpage at a glance, he roughly understood that Qi Yue was an overseas student who had returned to China. He was seriously injured in a major traffic accident a year ago. Although he was saved, he failed to wake up.Now he is recuperating in a certain people's hospital in city A.

Xu You wrote down the address of the hospital and planned to visit there when.

Vegetative people, how did they participate in the nightmare space...

He continued to check all the players he remembered.There are too many duplicate names that cannot be found, so we can only give up.Xu You made another discovery.

Luo Ji was a well-known fencer, but he committed suicide a few years ago, and it was on the news at the time.And Ke Junli, as well as Ji Wuran, also committed suicide before Xu You participated in this nightmare space.

Reminiscent of their abilities beyond ordinary players and their strange behaviors, Xu You felt that they had given up on reality and chose to stay in the nightmare space forever?

Or are they dead long ago, and the one with me is just an afterimage of the nightmare space?

……

Conjectures that are not confirmed are just conjectures.

Xu You turned off the webpage and closed his sore eyes from staring at the screen.

In any case, he absolutely didn't want to stay in that ghostly place.No matter how disappointing the reality is, it is far, far better than the world full of demons and ghosts.

What's more, I have found a job that pays well.

The setbacks in life are only temporary. As long as you shake off the ashes and stand up again, there may be surprises waiting for you in the uncertain future.

The author has something to say:

Lost!Heartache! _(:з」∠)_

But this also made me feel that I have a big problem with the plot structure and need to improve.

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It's finally time to open a new dungeon!