From the Start, I Wear a Mask of a Hundred Ghosts and Slay Gods by Playing All Mankind

(Horror Game + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Role-Playing) Gu Nianbai is a professional stage actor. On the forty-ninth day after his wife’s death, he was dragged into a place called the Crossing Calamity Realm. [The ironclad rule of the Crossing Calamity Realm: Only the uncanny can kill the uncanny.] The rules for making a wish are simple: clear eighteen levels of purgatory, meet God, and make one wish. He has only one wish: to bring his wife back. While everyone else is desperately gathering uncanny artifacts and suppressing uncanny seals, the ability he awakens is “Mask of a Hundred Ghosts”: Make a pact with the uncanny, wear its face, and use your soul to play out its entire life. Gu Nianbai: I’m risking my life to clear these levels, and you want me to act? Golden finger: The deeper you get into character, the stronger you become. You’re a professional actor, so this is right up your alley, isn’t it? Gu Nianbai: What happens if I get too deep into character? Golden finger: You’ll forget who you are :) So, in one man-eating uncanny realm after another, he steps into the twisted, tragic past lives of the uncanny, understands their resentment, and acts out their lives, then personally pulls them free of their obsessions. But when he finally looks back, he discovers… The uncanny he has “guided through” are all more unsettling than the last. And every single one of them is squatting in his consciousness, refusing to leave. “Actor, you’re losing yourself again. Remember your name.” “You mustn’t forget that woman’s face. But you must remember mine, too.” “It wants to kill you? Let me out. I’ll show it what rules really mean.” Gu Nianbai: …I really just want to find my wife. But at the far end of the empty stage deep within his consciousness, behind a mask covered by red cloth, came a voice he knew all too well.