Related thematic articles: Untitled Document. Zheng Zha has always felt that he would die in reality, going to and from work, eating and excreting, sleeping and waking up. He doesn't know what the meaning of his life is. It's definitely not in the beaming smile of Director Zhu, nor is it within the so-called white-collar woman he met at a bar, and certainly not in this endless steel jungle - the modern city.
Zheng Zha feels like he's rotting away, from the age of 24 until old age, then turning into soil and becoming just a name. No, not even a name will exist because no one will remember him. No one will remember a small white-collar worker, regardless of whether he is truly elegant or pretends to be bourgeois; he is just a speck of dust in this world.
He wants to change something, he wants to have his own significance...
"Want to understand the meaning of life? Want to truly... live?"
When Zheng Zha turned on his computer at work today, these words suddenly popped up on the screen. This was clearly some immature hacker's trick to attract attention. Whether you choose yes or no, the result is the same - downloading a virus. Zheng Zha chuckled and was about to close it, but as his finger touched the mouse, a strange palpitation made him stop.
"Want to understand the meaning of life? Want to truly... live?"
Zheng Zha felt a wave of confusion. An indescribable attraction made him place his finger on the left button of the mouse, and he lightly clicked "YES". Instantly, he lost consciousness...
Cold, shaking...
The moment Zheng Zha woke up, he jumped up from the ground. He panicked and looked around. The office environment in his mind got confused with the scene in front of him. But after a few seconds, he became clear again.
"Good, you are the best one among those who came this time." A cold voice said.
Zheng Zha turned his head and saw a black-haired young man sneering at him. This young man was about twenty-four or five years old, with an ordinary appearance, but there were several scars on his face, which made him look very fierce and terrifying.
The black-haired young man had a cigarette in his hand. He took a deep puff, then looked over Zheng Zha and stared at the people behind him. Only then did Zheng Zha realize there were five other people lying beside him, three men and two women. In addition, in this closed environment, there were also more than ten foreigners.
This was a carriage in motion, and it was moving very fast. The coldness and shaking were transmitted from this carriage.
"What is this place? Who are you? Why am I here?" Zheng Zha asked these people repeatedly, and because there were foreigners, he used English specially.
Those foreigners glanced at him and turned their heads. Only the black-haired young man sighed deeply and said, "Think carefully. It should have already implanted all this in your mind."
Think carefully? Zheng Zha began to recall everything in his mind. He only remembered when he saw the prompt "Want to understand the meaning of life? Want to truly... live?", he clicked the "YES" key on the computer screen, then he fainted...
Wait a minute, Zheng Zha suddenly felt that something extra was added to his mind, survival and life...
This is a game, who created this game is unknown, maybe the gods, or maybe demons, or even aliens or future humans. Anyway, he is now a part of this game, or rather, he has become a part of this game.
When a choice is placed before someone in the city who feels lost and feels they are decaying, once they choose this game, they will be sent to various horror movie scenes...
"This time it's Resident Evil 1. Rookies, your luck is really good, entering for the first time and meeting such an easy horror movie. Even if you die, you'll die easily." The black-haired young man deeply sucked the last puff of the cigarette, then crushed the remaining butt in his palm.
"Your meaning is that, we're just our consciousness entering the computer, like encounters in fantasy novels. Once we complete this game, our consciousness will return to our bodies, then we can survive and revive?" A little fat man sitting on the ground next to Zheng Zha asked.
The black-haired young man pulled out a pistol from his chest, a Desert Eagle. He opened the gun to adjust it while saying, "I don't know if it's just our consciousness, but you will feel pain, get injured, and die. And you're wrong. After you finish this game, you will enter another unknown horror movie. You might have seen it, or you might not. Each time 'the main god' brings in new members to fill the gaps left by the deaths in the previous horror movies. Each time there are between seven and twenty people. In other words, this Resident Evil 1 is a very low-risk horror movie, so we only have seven people combined."
The little fat man laughed coldly and said, "How do you know those dead people haven't returned to their bodies? Maybe they chose death themselves."
The black-haired young man suddenly raised his head. A flash of cold light passed through his eyes. In an instant, the young man seemed to turn into a black panther. Everyone saw him bend his legs and spring up. The next second, he was pressing down on the little fat man, inserting the Desert Eagle into the little fat man's mouth.
"Do you want to try dying? Can you imagine the infinite terror? I've experienced three horror movies. The first one was Nightmare on Elm Street 1. There were fifteen new players in that one, and two veterans who survived two horror movies. But do you know the ending? They were all killed in their dreams. Only one other person and I survived. Do you want to know what it feels like to be killed in an absurd dream? Do you want to see everything around you turn into squirming rotten flesh? In a sinister factory, you watch your body being slowly torn apart bit by bit by a pair of scissors. You piece of shit! Do you want to die?"
The black-haired young man screamed wildly. The murderous intent in his eyes was so obvious that the little fat man was scared stiff. With his mouth stuffed with the gun muzzle, he couldn't even beg for mercy.
Zheng Zha and the other two men and two women separated them. The black-haired young man smirked and walked back to where he sat earlier. He continued to touch the pistol and said, "Dying in a horror movie is real death, and being tortured to death by the demons in these horror movies will make you suffer greatly. So if you don't have the determination to survive, I would commit suicide immediately if I were you."
A young girl wearing glasses nearby asked, "Then we can't return to our bodies?"
The black-haired young man smirked and said, "I've been saying all along that you're not just your consciousness entering the computer. Do you think this game is something human technology can achieve? No, it's the work of gods. We are nothing but bugs in their eyes. To entertain them, they grab us and throw us into the horror movies to struggle. We are both physically and spiritually brought into this world, and there's no way back. At least, I think we can't go back."
The girl wearing glasses had a calm demeanor. She thought for a moment and said, "From your tone, it seems there's still hope to go back?"
The black-haired young man glanced at the girl wearing glasses and said, "The quality of the rookies this time is really good... Yes, there is indeed hope to go back."
As soon as these words came out, including Zheng Zha, the six people held their breaths. They stared directly at the black-haired young man.
"After completing each task, that is, surviving this horror movie, you will receive one thousand points as a reward. These one thousand points can exchange for many things, for example, you can exchange for the right to live in this horror movie world for one hundred days..."
The black-haired young man said indifferently.
A middle-aged man next to the girl wearing glasses said, "Who would want to live more days in such a terrifying world? Isn't that asking for death?"
The black-haired young man smirked without saying anything, but the girl wearing glasses touched her forehead and said, "No, I think I understand his meaning. Horror movies are divided into many types. One type is like this Resident Evil, a scientific horror movie where everything can be explained scientifically, with no supernatural demon elements. In other words, except for the places where the story happens, the rest of the world should be normal..."
The black-haired young man snapped his fingers and said, "Bingo! Correct. The one hundred extra days of living is indeed living normally for one hundred days in other parts of this world. Think about it. After experiencing several rounds of survival and death tests, being able to live peacefully and without worry in the normal areas of this world is a kind of happiness..."
Zheng Zha trembled all over. He seemed to somewhat understand the purpose of this world. Yes, precisely because of the boring survival, he felt himself decaying. But once he experiences countless horrors and deaths, then a bland life is indeed the happiest expectation.
The black-haired young man continued, "In addition to exchanging for days of living, you can also exchange for many things, such as this unlimited bullet Desert Eagle, which costs one hundred points, or ten days of living rights. Besides, a person's average qualities, including intelligence, mental power, cell vitality, nerve reaction speed, muscle tissue strength, and immune system strength, these six aspects can also be exchanged for one point per day of living rights. For an ordinary person, the intensity of these six aspects is all one hundred. In other words, as long as you survive this horror movie, you can completely double your strength. As long as you survive one hundred horror movies, you will become a superman!"
The girl wearing glasses calmly asked, "Then returning to the starting point, how many points are needed to return to our world?"
"Five ten-thousand points!" The black-haired young man pulled out another cigarette from his chest, lit it, and deeply inhaled. "You need to survive fifty horror movies without using any rewards. Then you can go back."
Instantly, several people fell silent. According to what the black-haired young man said, surviving fifty horror movies without using reward points is basically impossible.
"Of course, one thousand points per horror movie is the basic reward. You can also earn extra money in horror movies. For example, explaining all this to you guys just now, according to 'the main god's' rules, explaining the rules to new players will reward me with one hundred points. Meanwhile, you should have noticed that you're all wearing a strange watch, right?" The black-haired young man waved his left hand, which had a black pure metal watch, simple and pure in style.
Everyone looked at their left hands. This watch displayed several data, one being the countdown of three hours and seven minutes, and the other being some data names categorized, such as the number of zombies, the number of crawlers, the number of new players...
"Killing ten zombies rewards one point, killing one crawler rewards one hundred points, and killing one new player... rewards one thousand points..." The black-haired young man finished speaking and looked at Zheng Zha and the others with ill intentions. Among these people, only Zheng Zha and the girl wearing glasses quietly looked back at him.
"Of course, negative reward points..."
The black-haired young man looked at Zheng Zha and the girl wearing glasses and smirked. "Alright, ask any questions quickly. This horror movie is about to officially begin."
The girl wearing glasses looked at Zheng Zha, who slightly nodded, then she continued asking, "There are two or three more questions. I've also watched this Resident Evil 1. The ending is that the T-virus from the laboratory invades Raccoon City. Before that, if we escape from the laboratory in this carriage, can't we easily survive?"
The black-haired young man nodded and said, "Look at the watch. Is there a name on the top left? Say it out loud."
"Matthew·Addison!"
All the people said it simultaneously. Then they were amazed to see that one of the foreign soldiers, a black man, emitted a faint light all over his body. This light lasted only for a moment, then the black man returned to normal.
"This is the captain of the mercenaries in the movie. This movie belongs to a specific regional horror movie, where the plot only happens in this laboratory. 'The main god' restricts the difficulty, so in such a horror movie, it's impossible to escape too far from the plot area. Leaving Matthew·Addison by one hundred meters, we will... boom, disappear. Understand? When he dies in the plot, this restriction will be transferred to other characters in the plot. Linked together, we can only fight for survival in this horror movie." The black-haired young man explained.
Zheng Zha suddenly asked, "What is 'the main god'? You've been mentioning this name all along."
"'The main god' should be the thing managing our entry into this horror movie loop. It gives us reward points, and exchanges are conducted with it. 'The main god' is a light ball. In fact, I have no idea what it actually is." The black-haired young man waved his hand.
The girl wearing glasses nodded and said, "The last question... what do these numbers represent?" She pointed to the numbers counting down on the watch.
"You must stay in this horror movie for a certain period of time, Xu Zhimo. Once the time is up, you can return alive to 'the main god' to collect your reward, then face the next horror movie." The black-haired young man deeply inhaled his cigarette and said.
At this moment, the carriage started to slow down gradually. The black-haired young man finished smoking in a few puffs, then pulled out the Desert Eagle from his chest and said, "Alright, the plot starts from now on. They can hear our conversation from now on. Remember, if they hear our topics, ten points will be deducted. Ten points per sentence, and the negative part will be deducted from the next reward. Rookies... try to survive well!"
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