[A Novice Priest's Survival Rules]
1. Make completing the mission your top priority.
2. Never explore too deeply.
3. Never pity the ghosts and monsters by the roadside. [Red Alert]
Cang Le was born into a family of clergy. He was frail and sickly from birth, and had impaired vision. The farthest he had ever gone was the church downstairs from his home. He had never traveled far, even by the time he reached adulthood.
At eighteen, he finally suffered an acute illness and was sent to the ICU.
When he woke again, he found himself in a strange school he had never seen before, its grounds crawling with ghosts.
[Jiangcheng No. 5 Middle School has been closed for three years following a serious falling death.]
[Today, an expedition team has appeared here. This will be an adventure from which there is no return...]
System: [Mission issued. Collecting over 50% of the clues and exploring over 50% of the map will count as mission completion. Do your best to survive, adventurers.]
As ghosts and monsters invaded and the players scattered in panic, Cang Le picked up a bloodstained note.
Its dripping red words laid out every grievance.
"Sorry to bother you." He looked up, his hazy eyes turning politely toward the female ghost. "Do you know who wrote this note?"
Female ghost: "?"
System: [Mission complete. Please log out of the game.]
[Warning: The map ahead is a danger zone and beyond the scope of the mission. Please stop here.]
[Please stop!]
Without looking back, Cang Le pushed open the door. A powerful stench of blood hit him. In the middle of a pool of blood, a black-haired boy knelt, a bloody, gaping hole exposed in his chest.
"Hello," he said. "God loves all living things. I saw the note you left behind, so I've come to help you."
The boy narrowed his eyes. His bare toes were stained with blood as he slowly walked toward him.
Pale fingertips, heavy with a chilling aura, pinched his lips.
"Answer me one question first," the boy said. "Little priest, have you ever kissed anyone?"
Cang Le: "?"
[To save a ghost, save yourself first (your body, that is).]
*The clergy and priests in this story come from an original religion and have no connection to the real world.
*The love interest is a fragment.
[2021.09.13]
Theme: Live toward the light