I’ve adapted this novel into a text adventure game with the same name and uploaded it to Bilibili. Feel free to message me if you’re interested! [Infinite loop + no System + realistic dreams + unconventional puzzle-solving + clever cast + middle-aged male protagonist + fiercely loyal team + intense angst and sweetness + happy ending]
A masterpiece rated 9.5 by AI! Readers born in the ’80s and ’90s will relate to it deeply! No harem, no elite soldier, no arrogant chosen one. The protagonist’s only abilities are the wisdom and life experience he has gained over forty years.
Tian Chen, a forty-year-old kindergarten English teacher, wakes up at a desk meant for a seventeen-year-old. He discovers that he is trapped in a bizarre school known as “The Rift Between Dreams and Reality.” Every day, a death game with rules that defy expectations begins, and anyone who fails is erased completely from both memory and existence.
Rule One: Your name will be forcibly changed into a nickname.
Rule Two: Classic games have all been twisted. Priests lose health when they heal, and warriors protect their enemies!
Rule Three: Only four people will survive in the end!
To protect the kind companions around him, Tian Chen must draw on his exceptional wisdom and veteran-level gaming experience to see through the lies hidden in the rules time and again, leading his teammates to find the only way out of rules that seem certain to kill them.
Psychological horror, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a deeply satisfying ending.
Everyone was chosen because of the “unwillingness” buried deep in their hearts.
Alongside the death games, there is a second main plot: uncovering the truth about the world from within the school.
This is a prison ruled by a usurper god, a feast that feeds on souls full of “unwillingness.” When the ultimate truth is revealed, will Tian Chen be able to lead his companions, take down that god, and go home?
In the prison where the gods died, chewing the sorrow - a preliminary exploration of the world view of "Ten Days Game in Dreamland" "Everything around us seems to be separated by a layer of frosted glass, with blurred edges..." "Ten Days Game in Dreamland" opens with a very atmospheric opening, instantly pulling us into a strange world full of unknowns and uneasiness. This is not a simple infinite flow novel, it is more like a slowly unfolding dark epic full of Cthulhu-style unknown fear. If you are obsessed with exploring a huge and mysterious world, then the first three days of this book will unfold for you a puzzle that is enough to make you immersed in it and unable to extricate yourself. The stage of the story is set in a high school campus called "the space between dreams and reality." The time here seems to stay at dusk forever, and the sky has a faded drowsiness. The first huge suspense throughout is those "classmates whose faces cannot be seen clearly". Are they real souls, or projections of the protagonist's subconscious? This mystery sets a strange and alienating tone for the entire story from the beginning. Immediately afterwards, the "name" that was forcibly distorted by the rules - you said the real name, but the other party heard the nickname - showed this kind of deprivation and play of "self-identity" incisively and vividly, making people shudder. As the game progresses, the truth of this world is revealed layer by layer. On the third day, in the abandoned dungeon full of pixel style, the protagonist group finally found the first earth-shattering clue about the nature of the world - [When lies are regarded as truth, when sadness becomes food. "God" is dead, and "His" creations will guard this endless prison forever. It turns out that every fear, every suspicion, and every despair we have is providing "food" for an unknown existence. It turns out that the world we live in is an abandoned "Prison of God". The throwing out of this setting instantly elevated the entire story pattern from "players' survival" to the epic level of "prisoners rebelling against gods". Why are we here? Who is the real "god"? What does that usurper who feeds on sorrow want from us? The charm of "Ten Days Game in Dreams" lies in that it is not eager to give answers, but like a skilled horror story master, patiently and step by step guides us deep into the dark forest full of unknowns and malice. Each puzzle solved leads to ten bigger ones. If you long for a true, bone-deep suspenseful exploration journey, then please open the door to the "narrow room" and join the protagonist to explore the ultimate truth about the death of the gods that is buried under endless sorrow.
The 40-year-old kindergarten teacher went back to the school where he was 17 years old and played this death game too crazy! Just the setting of "Tian Chen, a 40-year-old preschool English teacher, returns to the 17-year-old desk" has already raised expectations - who would have thought that returning to youth is not a nostalgic sweet drama, but falling directly into the "crack between dreams and reality" on campus, and having to play an anti-routine death game every day? The most annoying thing is the "malice" of the game: the name is forced to be changed to a nickname, the familiar tactics and animal husbandry settings are all overturned, the priests and healers lose health, and the soldiers have to protect the enemy. Every step is breaking the common sense of the players. And Tian Chen's advantage is even more overwhelming. With the 40-year-old life wisdom and the experience of a hardcore player, he does not rely on brute force to break through levels, but the dimensionality reduction cracking of "seeing through the rules and lies". This kind of refreshing feeling of crushing traps with experience is much more exciting than ordinary monsters and upgrades! What's even more surprising is the parallelism of two main lines: on one side, it's a life-and-death game, where you have to protect your companions and fight for the four spots to return to reality; on the other side, you have to dig out the truth behind the campus—the prison controlled by the usurped "god" and the setting that feeds on "unwilling" souls, which directly brings the situation to the level of "killing gods and returning home." Now my mind is full of: How does Tian Chen balance "protecting his companions" and "cracking the game"? How many clues to the truth are hidden on campus? Can you really lead someone to kill the "god" and go home smoothly in the end? This kind of refreshing and brain-burning story, with a touch of "going home" warmth, really makes people want to catch up immediately!
A masterpiece! The 40-year-old man broke into the death game and relied on his game experience to beat the gods! High energy throughout! This book is just crazy fun! His name is Tian Chen, a 40-year-old ordinary uncle who lives an ordinary life with his wife and children on the hot bed every day. But when he woke up, he was dragged into a death game that lasted for ten days by a guy who called himself "God"! Here, the killer is invisible, the teammates are all rookies, and the rules are full of pitfalls! He thought he was going to be cool, but he didn't expect that all the games he had played in the past forty years would turn out to be his strongest cheat! On the first day, they were still playing Werewolf at the kindergarten level. He had already used psychology and micro-expression analysis to accurately identify all werewolves and lead the good guys camp to victory! On the third day, everyone was overwhelmed by the negative effects of all the reversal of skills. Only he could see through the GM's conspiracy at a glance! What combat RPG? This is obviously a puzzle game! They are still thinking about how to fight monsters, but he has already started repairing toys and giving gifts to monsters! In the end, relying on the familiarity with classic BOSS battles, he led the team to pass the level without making any mistakes and obtained a magical outfit! What? You say he is just a useless middle-aged man? Sorry, in this world made up of games, he is the only god of strategy! Of course, the world is also full of mysteries. Who is the "god" hiding behind the scenes? Can the four people who survive to the end really return to reality? Don't worry, follow him and see how he uses his twenty years of gaming experience to unite his strongest teammates and uncover the final truth of the world step by step! Kill that bullshit god, and then take everyone home! [It doesn't look good for you to hit me! Hurry up and get into the trap, you won't lose anything! ]
I discovered a wonderful book! Tired of reading King of Soldiers, Long Aotian, this book is definitely a breath of fresh air! Chased!