Haunted Path: I Became the Only Mole in a Horror Game

[Mystery + Rules-Based Horror + Infinite-Flow + Horror Game + Cast of Master Actors + Identity Reversals + Escape-Room Puzzles + Mind Games]

I was making late-night deliveries when the app automatically navigated my car into a haunted village from twenty years ago. The six others with me were all “acquaintances” from my phone's social network.

In the car, the passenger who was a famous actress pretended to cry, while the trainee Taoist priest cried louder than a ghost. Our only reliable clue came from a horror-game walkthrough played by a chuunibyou.

The villagers with rolling white eyes feared fire, corpses disappeared from safe zones, no one could go outside at night, and we had to find copper coins. The village's bizarre rules were uncannily similar to those in that horror game.

After venturing deeper into the game, we even began to awaken other powers.

Just as we thought we'd found a glimmer of hope, every phone screen lit up at once, displaying the same message:

“Congratulations on clearing ‘Haunted Village.’”

“Loading next world...”

“Warning: One of you is not a player!”