Going Viral for Chinese-Style Supernatural Tales in Space

Yu Xingxun is an outdoor paranormal exploration streamer. After an accident, he transmigrates to the interstellar era, where everyone has spiritual energy. If your spiritual activity drops below a safe level, you become numb, eventually suffering brain death.

People need mental stimulation.

Yu Xingxun: Well... how about a taste of Chinese-style paranormal horror?

The holographic world is the second home of interstellar citizens. Somehow, a Chinese paranormal horror attraction has appeared inside it.

Night. A barren mountain. An old house. A bloodied hand clings desperately to a glass window, beneath four eerily crooked scarlet characters: The Old Village on the Barren Mountain.

Interstellar citizens: The Old Village on the Barren Mountain? What's that supposed to be? Not scary at all!

They click on the preview, and the scene comes to life. The hand scrabbles desperately up the window, but it's no use. No matter how hard it struggles, all it leaves behind is a string of bloody handprints.

Something drags the person away from behind.

An eerie laugh rings out. Behind the window, a woman in a white dress stares straight at them. Her face is deathly pale, and her feet don't touch the ground.

[!!!]

[Ahhhhh! It's looking at me! What is that thing?!]

[Mom, my hair is standing on end! Why?!]

[My spiritual activity just changed! Holy crap, and this is only a preview?!]

Would you like to purchase the full version for an immersive experience?

[Buy, buy, buy! Fine, I'll buy it, okay?]

After that, classic stories like Ghost Marriage, The Ghost in Someone Else's Skin, and The Corpse Bearer fill the attraction. The military, hospitals, and influential figures from every field give Yu Xingxun their full support, drawing attention from across the web. They no longer have to worry about becoming walking corpses!

Reader's note:

1. There are livestreams, so the on-screen comments may be plentiful.

2. Updates are irregular.

--- Coming Soon: Players, but Fighting for Territory in the Contamination Zone ---

Lin Chaolu buys a single-player game and logs in. It's a good game, with plenty of freedom and interaction, except its NPCs often freeze up and repeat themselves.

That isn't without its advantages.

Today, he goes to his NPC neighbor's house to take one thing. Tomorrow, he goes to another NPC's house to haul something else away.

The NPC stiffly raises a hand toward him. "Ka-ba, ka-ba..."

The player doesn't care what it's saying. The player is busy. The player hoists a refrigerator and runs.

The player kills a monster and gets one plot of land. The player starts farming.

The player kills a monster and gets one shop. The player starts doing business.

The player diligently explores the map every day, fighting his way in and out of monster hordes. Before long, the high-risk Contamination Zone has become the player's territory.

As the saying goes, what's an NPC's is a player's, and the NPCs themselves belong to the player too.

So one NPC is put on gate duty, one goes farming, and one sells vegetables.

The player's territory flourishes.

One day, a red-haired NPC suddenly shouts at him, "That's him! He single-handedly crushed all three top families on the leaderboard!"

Lin Chaolu is stunned. What? Who did that?

The player just attacks anyone with a red name.

*

The Contamination Zone has changed. Anyone walking up to its entrance can see it.

A mutated creature stands there. Whenever it sees someone, it stiffly turns its head and repeats, "Welcome! Welcome!"

Everyone: ?

At some point, a baffling person appeared in their world.

He dresses in gaudy, glittering clothes, and every step he takes seems to make flowers bloom beneath his feet. He always says "skip" during conversations, walks in straight lines no matter where he's going, suddenly jumps onto tables, and suddenly starts rummaging through trash cans. Wherever he goes, chaos follows, and a crowd of people have no choice but to follow behind and clean up his messes.

They can do nothing about him, but they can't say they resent him much either, because his arrival is what finally turned everything around.

This man is both a calamity and a god who saves the world.

Theme: The power of the spirit