Cheng Shui agrees to help a friend test a little full-immersion game.
The game's theme is a seven-day ghost murder case. Every player who has known the ghost for seven days will die at midnight on the seventh night.
Players must find a way to survive. Making it out alive means clearing the game.
Cheng Shui: This is right up my alley. There's no game I can't beat!
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On the first run, Cheng Shui tries to strike up a friendly conversation with the ghost. Three sentences later, he dies.
On the second run, Cheng Shui turns and runs. He dies before he can even leave the room.
On the third run, Cheng Shui finally manages to escape, only to be found by the ghost on the seventh night. He dies.
Furious, Cheng Shui pounds on the computer and posts online to complain that his friend's game is impossibly difficult.
One minute later, a genius netizen replies: If you're bold enough, even a ghost can take a honeymoon!
Cheng Shui: [A bizarre new strategy for clearing the game has been unlocked.jpg]
On run N, Cheng Shui uses his own face for his character and successfully survives the seven days.
Looking at the ghost's maxed-out affection bar and the game prompt saying that survival will take him to the next stage...
Ha. A shallow ghost with a thing for looks. It killed him so many times before!
Cheng Shui immediately deletes his character and account, then runs for it.
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A month after uninstalling the garbage game, Cheng Shui can't help asking his friend how the full-immersion game is doing.
His friend sends a question mark: I wanted to ask you the same thing. Why hasn't your account logged in at all?
Cheng Shui: ?
His friend is about to ask more when he sees a breaking headline in red:
A King of Ghosts with an SSS-level threat rating has taken control of City B.
A ghost kills over seven days.
Unless the ghost's wife is found, someone could die at any moment.
The features of the ghost's deceased wife are strikingly similar to those of his friend.
Theme: Even when you're trapped in a desperate situation and can't see a way forward, don't despair. Try going left or right, and you might find another view. Choosing to lie flat is a way of life, too.
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