Horror Monsters All Call Me Mom [Infinite]

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Year 3033.

Planet Seastar was shrouded in the shadow of escape games, large and small.

That same year, the live-action game The Deadly Ballad, hailed as the most terrifying game in history, officially launched.

Songs served as clue lists, and the losers became monster food.

For the extremely generous first-clear rewards, the major guilds eagerly formed teams. And then...

One player went in alone.

The guilds: Have a safe trip.

Tan Yunyi snorted and gripped the all-purpose key in her hand, opening a hidden door.

Tentacles surged out of the hidden doorway.

The tentacled monster, covered in eyeballs, bent down and muttered something in a language humans couldn't understand.

Tan Yunyi: ...Speak human!

The monster transformed with a pop into a tiny plush toy.

It gently rubbed against her with its tentacles. "Mommy."

Tan Yunyi: ???

[System: Congratulations to player Tan Yunyi on successfully clearing the game for the first time!!!]

The guilds: ??? This game isn't that hard. Let's go, everyone!

After they charged in and became monster food, don't ask. They all regretted it bitterly.

After that, the guilds grew numb to the name [Tan Yunyi], because every day, without fail, they'd get the same reports:

Congratulations to player Tan Yunyi for successfully clearing the game!

Congratulations to player Tan Yunyi for obtaining a hidden reward!

Congratulations to player Tan Yunyi for breaking the historical record!

The guilds: My heart is exhausted. It feels like we're not even playing the same game.

Of course they weren't playing the same game!

Tan Yunyi's biggest challenge every time she played was:

How to stop those monsters from calling her Mommy in front of everyone!!

#Everyone else is trying to escape the horror game, while I'm working hard to be a mom [not really]#

#Wait, calling me Mommy is one thing, but why are you finding yourselves a dad too??#

[Preview]

The Planar Inn:

The moment Mina opened her eyes, a battered signboard nearly knocked her unconscious.

She picked it up and looked at the inn, which was no better than a condemned building.

A wave of dizziness hit her

I can accept getting dropped into a management game!

But why did they give me the inn that no one wanted from the starting options?

She opened the mission panel:

Please upgrade from [A shack nobody would ever visit] to [A shack people would visit only if they had no other choice].

Mina: ???

She opened her current assets and nearly blacked out.

Her starting funds were...

Why were they negative?!

There was no way she could rebuild such a huge, desolate inn all by herself.

So, with a miserable look on her face, she borrowed 500 gold from the money house.

After choosing the 10-gold recruitment option,

she somehow got a humanoid creature who was always asleep and never ate.

She tearfully spent another 100 gold to hire a [Specialist],

but got a one-eyed man wearing an eyepatch. He brandished a Green Dragon Crescent Blade. "I'm a master with a blade!"

Then he chopped the vegetables until they were as thin as strands of hair.

But the table was chopped into strands of hair too...

Inn assets: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1

...In the end, I had to bear it all alone.

Mina gritted her teeth and began renovating the condemned building. She was in the middle of tamping down the foundation when...

She suddenly discovered that the perpetually sleepy receptionist had woken up and was devouring the stones she'd collected to tamp down the foundation.

After sleeping for two whole days,

the inn automatically upgraded!

Mina's eyes lit up. "How about you eat a little more?"

#The receptionist is actually a fragment of the Lord God#

#I actually used the Lord God's body to tamp down the foundation#

The Head-Hider

The people of Night City discovered several exceptionally brutal murders.

The victims came from different walks of life, but they all shared one trait: their heads had vanished without a trace.

The police deployed a large force but found nothing. Yet, in the surveillance footage of a convenience store on a street corner, Qi Si unexpectedly spotted a tall woman with long hair reaching her waist, turning to glance at the camera. More importantly, she was carrying a strange "bundle" that was round in shape, like a human head!

Following his instincts, Qi Si continued investigating, never expecting to encounter people in a profession on the fringes of society: Head-Hiders.

They kill, they save people, and they spend their lives wandering the boundary between light and shadow,

all to grant the dead peace and bring the living some relief.

"If you see a gray light, don't go near it. That's people burning up their lives."

There is more to this world than human beings.

There are also crystallized regrets and resentment.

People die, but the intense emotions they leave behind can linger for a long time, bound up with heaven and earth.

Only by opening up their heads and dissolving their resentment can they finally rest in peace.

Theme: All things should live together in peace.