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- 1 The Game of the Guilty 罪徒游戏 (Due to the author's work commitments, updates may be slow. Feel free to let the story build up before you start reading...) [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Dark Tone] [Original Instances] Greed, brutality, coldness, the pursuit of profit... Destruction, death, upheaval, change... In a world where God is dead, there are no deities. A despairing society breeds twisted individuals. Self-serving opportunists skulk along the edge of the shadows, sneering as they embrace their own demise. Qi Bai aw 41Votes30.6kRecs28.9kFans
- 2 The Strange-Tales Author's Diary of Delays 怪谈作者拖更日记 [One Female Lead or No Female Lead. Don't Read If That Bothers You] [Infinite-Flow Mind Games] + [Wildly Imaginative Urban Legends] + [Wordplay] + [Troublemaker Literature] Core of the power system: combining words ↓ Combine a "stone" and a "hide" to form the character for "break," capable of breaking all kinds of things. [Example Scene]: When confronted by zombies, just carry rice with you and scatter it. Combine "corpse" and "rice" to create a huge mass of mosaic, making the enemy vanish in an 4Votes69.5kRecs368.5kFans
- 3 EN Absurd Deduction Game 荒诞推演游戏 An eerie mansion is steeped in the unknowable and uncanny, and criminals skilled at hiding lurk within. Yu Xing clutches a dagger, looking like a lamb ready for slaughter in front of the big shots. A scraping, rustling sound comes from the attic, as if something is crawling. His temporary teammates say, “Go investigate the attic.” Yu Xing: “All right...” A monster blocks their only escape route. His temporary teammates say, “Go draw it away. Hurry, or we'll make sure you don' 11Votes310kRecs489.8kFans
- 4 EN Infinite Horror Game 无限诡异游戏 Rules feed on gods, and gods offer all living beings as sacrifices. The eerie game is a trap, and the resurgence of the occult is its medium. Beneath the austere veneer lies an indescribable terror. Unwilling to be shackled by fate, Si Qi leaps beyond his restraints. He shreds morality and dances alone on the boundary between black and white; he breaks free of the rules and builds his own 7Votes55.7kRecs233.6kFans
- 5 Void Beacon 虚空灯塔 Synopsis: Bai Xiao signs a contract with the Lighthouse, becoming a cold-blooded observer who travels through different worlds. And so, the legend of the “Ashen Calamity” spreads among the contractors. “Holy crap, I saw this guy’s health bar with my own eyes! It stretched right off the screen, and he had two bars with damage reflection!” “One guy taking on two world bosses at once. Is he even human?” “Am I seeing things? Fifty-nine debuff auras? My stats have been reduced below zero!” “The Blood 35Votes38.3kRecs123.5kFans
- 6 Nightmare Apostle 噩梦使徒 “A violent incident has occurred at a hospital in our city. A patient has taken medical staff hostage and is currently in a standoff with the police...” Yang Xiao switched off the TV. The next second, a call came through. “Son, let the doctor go! The police are all outside. You can’t escape!” As if to prove the woman’s words, the sirens outside grew louder and louder, and there was movement in the corridor, too. “It’s fake. It’s all fake. This is a nightmare world. Otherwise, why would you be ab 1.1kVotes444.6kRecs1.1MFans
- 7 EN Reincarnation Paradise 轮回乐园 Su Xiao signs a reincarnation contract and enters various worlds to carry out missions. He has witnessed a world collapse into dust, and fought with blade in hand against a forgotten king. Dark ravens whisper, while colossal beasts roar beneath the Black Abyss. Welcome to the Reincarnation Paradise… 1.4kVotes15MRecs7.7MFans
- 8 First Player 第一玩家 [If all of humanity places its hopes in one person, will civilization have an easier road ahead?] “When you read these words, a game of planetary survival, with everything at stake, will already have begun. Only by winning to the very end can you win back your home civilization.” “I am Su Ming’an. I possess the ability to rewind after death, and I alone know it.” “I guard a secret even the planetary invaders don’t know: whenever civilization falls into despair, I’m the only one who can retur 180Votes1.2MRecs2.3MFans
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Global Collapse 全球崩坏
“I was abandoned at the entrance to the Starting Point Orphanage. Later, the orphanage went bankrupt.” “I once attended a kindergarten. Later, it went out of business.” “In the past twenty years, I've lived through a train derailment, a 28-car pileup, a natural gas leak, a gas explosion… But I'm still alive.” “Life has done everything it can to wipe me out, but I've stubbornly survived.” “But I never imagined life would pull something like this again, ” [Welcome to the Global Evolution Game
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- 10 EN Nightmare Assault 噩梦惊袭 Horror, supernatural, infinite-worlds. Focused on the plot, no romance. That's pretty much it. 47Votes163.2kRecs970.1kFans
- 11 EN Player of the Uncanny 怪谈玩家 They reshape logic with rules and use reason to describe things beyond reason. This is a bizarre and uncanny game, as well as a continuation of the real world. Until the normal becomes abnormal, and the abnormal becomes the norm. 4Votes87.1kRecs342.3kFans
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