Corridor of Resentment: Endless Terror

When the bloody handprint on the classroom blackboard dragged Chen Mo into the Corridor of Resentment, he thought it was just a hallucination brought on by near-death. That is, until he saw his best friend in the hospital instance, chewed to pieces by his own mirror double, dissolving into a cloud of blood.

[Welcome to the Five-Dimensional Corridor of Resentment. Clear 80 dimensions to reach the Gate of Guixu.] As the icy announcement rang out, the five-person team was forced onto a path of no return. From an abandoned hospital crawling with vengeful spirits to a deep-sea dragon palace harboring man-eating creatures, every level's traps struck precisely at the weakest parts of human nature. When I swung my blade and shattered my seventeenth mirror double, I saw my childhood friend's lingering soul in the shards. At last, the System delivered the finishing blow: "Your mirror doubles are bound to you. Kill them to stay alive."

We chewed moldy biscuits and bandaged one another's wounds, warmed our frozen fingers with our body heat, and fought back-to-back against the Huashé in the dragon palace instance. In a time loop, we repeatedly killed our own selves. But just as the bond totem in our palms began to burn and we were about to knock on the Gate of Guixu, the last words of a dead companion suddenly played backward in our ears: "Guixu was never a way out..."

It turned out that from the very first day we entered the corridor, we had become sustenance for Chaos. Were the bonds we had risked our lives to protect our only weapon, or the cruelest deception of all? Only when the "me" in the mirror raised a blade against me did I understand that the most terrifying thing wasn't the vengeful spirits. It was watching a companion become an enemy, yet still smiling and saying, "I'll stay by your side."

(Infinite survival, ensemble cast, mirror traps, and bonds with lingering souls. A five-person team battles Chaos to the bitter end and uncovers the thousand-year-old deception behind Guixu!)