Racing Through a Horror Game with My Girlfriend

When the sky filled with that eerily beautiful, blood-red glow, none of the tourists on the beach realized what a terrifying disaster was about to unfold.

At that very moment, a young couple on vacation here was relaxing on beach chairs and sipping orange juice.

"It's just a light from fishing boats catching Pacific saury," Qin Huaixi confidently told his girlfriend. "There have been reports about this sort of thing before."

Tao Sha fiddled with the camera in her hands. "Really? Then let's take a photo to remember it by."

But the instant she pressed the shutter, a crystal-clear notification rang in everyone's ears:

"Ding."

"The Ivy Horror Game House will open in ten seconds. All players, please get ready!"

Ten seconds later, the beach fell silent.

And in a corner of some otherworldly space, the unlucky couple stood barefoot in a pitch-black room, each still holding a cup of orange juice, utterly bewildered.

W-what is this...?

The world's massive horror game houses have officially opened. The Ivy series has been specially designed with players in China in mind, and countless NPCs from their childhood nightmares will be waiting for them. All players must strictly follow the game rules. Clear the game to stay alive.

It would be a long time before they learned the truth.

This was no absurd gaming extravaganza.

It was humanity's long-planned revenge for a lie.

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"I know everything of past and future,

I know all the secrets of the deaf and mute,

I know how the dark and muddled language of humanity

has given 'life' its name."

-- From a collection of poems by Tsvetaeva.

Reader's Tips:

1. The main group has six people, and a seventy-year-old granny joins the adventure too.

2. The overall tone is light and humorous. It won't be too scary, because the author is afraid of ghosts too.

Theme: Turn desperate situations around and never give up.