Lin Qi was pulled into a deadly scenario in a game called Strange Tales.
His first stop: Strange Tales of Bear Ridge.
He had to play Sun Wukong and survive in Bald Qiang's eerie inn.
Rule One: You must return to the inn before 6 p.m. every day.
Rule Two: You cannot trust anyone completely.
Rule Three: After midnight, you must stay somewhere with a circle drawn on it.
Rule Four: Never let the characters in the story discover that you aren't the real Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
Break a rule, and you die. Break character, and you die.
But here's the problem: Sun Wukong isn't afraid of monsters, but Lin Qi is. Sun Wukong can't use a phone, but Lin Qi can. Any instinctive reaction from a modern person could give him away.
Watching the other players die horribly after forgetting their characters' settings, Lin Qi finally understood: this game wasn't about martial strength, but acting.
When the eerie Tang Monk began chanting the Tightening Spell, everyone else clutched their heads and wailed. Lin Qi instead pulled out a peach and cheerfully offered it to him. “Master, would you like a peach?”
Everyone thought he was asking to die.
Only the System knew: perfect roleplay unlocked hidden abilities.
Later, Lin Qi went from playing the Monkey King to Zhuge Liang, from Journey to the West to the Three Kingdoms, and from Bear Ridge to the Era of Strange Tales.
Players all over the world kept asking, “Who is he, really?”
Lin Qi smiled faintly. “An actor.”
It wasn't until he stood before the administrator that he discovered the truth: the real rule of this game had never been to play someone else, but to play yourself.
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