Ye Qing, twenty-seven years old, is a horror game programmer - to be precise, a "former" programmer.
He just got laid off. The game "Whispering" that I participated in the production of was rated 0.5 Stars, but most of the reviews were negative, and players were reluctant to refund money. The company disbanded the team overnight and even offered severance pay for only two months.
But that's not the worst.
The worst part is that he has a disease living in his head that is eating his brain. Nervous system degeneration is slow and irreversible. Doctors say there are still a few years left. And he feels like vomiting whenever he plays a horror game.
Then the system caught up with him.
[The horror game developer system has been activated]
[Trial period scene loading - Codename: Silent Requiem]
A haunted opera house. A baton holder with his mouth sewn shut. A requiem that can drive a living person crazy. Twelve musicians with stitched eyes, a group of men in black who risk their lives to explore the road, and a man wearing a jester mask with a turbulent stomach. The conditions for clearing the level are unknown, and the penalty for failure is only one word - death.
When he used a tampered piece of music score to trap the conductor in a "perfect" logic bug and walked out of the theater alive, the system sent a thoughtful greeting:
Do you want to be cured of your disease? This system has this capability.
Then his world changed.
Literally. The park in the middle of the street has been turned into the guild headquarters building, and the large LED screen scrolls the news of "The successful removal of Class B abnormal doors." There are several floating islands floating in the sky, and the entire human civilization is managed by an agency called the "Abnormal Affairs Administration." And there was an extra message on his phone——
