GBP Chapter 119 Playing Games
Chapter 119 Playing Games
When Ning Xinian returned from exercising, he saw He Jingtang and Yan Xun playing games on the sofa.
He felt that the two of them were really depraved, especially when he saw He Jingtang almost hiding behind Yan Xun. He didn't know if they were playing a game or flirting. He couldn't stand it and couldn't help but cough.
"I rely on!"
He Jingtang was so frightened he almost jumped up.
When he saw it was Ning Xinian, he breathed a sigh of relief. "Can you please not scare people?"
Ning Xinian returned the trash talk he'd uttered that morning to him, "There are security cameras here?"
"You two have started operating your businesses too."
"Don't make our brotherhood sound so materialistic." He Jingtang knew that Ning Xinian was looking for an opportunity to retaliate. He was about to say something when he saw the monster suddenly appear on the screen. He immediately started yelling and tugging at Yan Xun's sleeve, as if he wanted to hide behind Yan Xun like a big bird.
Unfortunately, the scene was as comical as a brown bear trying to hide behind a tree.
Ning Xinian was startled by He Jingtang's commotion and subconsciously looked at the screen.
The screen was completely black; I couldn't see anything.
"Dead?" Ning Xinian asked.
"No," Yan Xun said.
He Jingtang, hiding behind Yan Xun, was extremely curious about their conversation. Clutching the handle, he cautiously peeked out from behind Yan Xun's shoulder.
Yan Xun tried to stop him, but it was too late.
Suddenly, the black screen split open, revealing a pale, eyeless face on the screen.
He Jingtang was so frightened that he almost lost his voice, and Ning Xinian, who was standing a little further away, was also frightened and took a few steps back.
“…I was just about to say that.” Yan Xun said to the two of them while directing the character to retreat quickly and using props to repel the monster that suddenly appeared. “We just entered a cutscene. The black color is because the monster is now right in front of us.”
This humanoid monster, with its spider-like limbs twisted, can not only crawl on the ground, but also move freely on ceilings and walls.
His abdomen was bulging high, his arms were all bent backwards, and his head was facing the player.
From Yan Xun's perspective.
Once he controlled his character to enter the mysterious cabin, the monster kept following him.
The monster was sometimes above Yan Xun's head, sometimes behind him, and sometimes even in front of him... The cutscene just now showed the monster coming directly in front of Yan Xun's path and blocking the door.
Then he pounced and lunged at her face.
In the game's settings, the mobile phone is a key item.
Unless they are exceptionally gifted, they can only see the monsters in the game through this special psionic phone.
The game theoretically supports multiplayer online mode. He Jingtang had previously asked him to play online, but this guy was ridiculously timid. He was killed by a monster before he even got to the second floor, and then kept screaming and yelling behind him.
Ning Xinian watched for a while, seemed to find it interesting, and sat down on the sofa as well.
"Didn't you say you could only see these monsters through a mobile phone?"
Ning Xinian looked at the humanoid spider in front of him, only to find that it was not a perspective that could be observed with a mobile phone camera.
"Look at the time in the top left corner," Yan Xun gestured for Ning Xinian to look at a timer in the top left corner of the screen.
Ning Xinian looked over and found that it showed 230 minutes.
“After 120 minutes, I could vaguely see these monsters.”
Yan Xun said, "Although we still need the help of a mobile phone, the monsters can already reveal some of their shapes."
"After 200 minutes, I could already see these monsters."
Ning Xinian didn't quite understand what he meant. He didn't play games much and didn't really understand this kind of game setting.
"Although it's just speculation, that's roughly the gist of it." Yan Xun manipulated his character to run backward, avoiding a direct confrontation with the humanoid spider.
"I just discovered that my agility has increased."
"Is this a good thing?" Ning Xinian asked.
“This is bad news,” Yan Xun said. “My character was originally conceived as a useless detective’s assistant.”
“I only work with that conman detective to handle dangerous cases because I’m short of money. This time, we’ve come to a house that supposedly no one can leave.” Yan Xun said, gesturing for Ning Xinian to look behind him. “This is the conman detective.”
Ning Xinian: "..."
"The main characters are all dead?"
“This game supports multiplayer online play,” Yan Xun said. “I took a look, and if players want, they can also play as police officers, real estate agents, milkmen, and so on.”
"Everyone enters the house for different reasons, but they all receive this psionic phone."
He said he manipulated the character to turn on the psionic phone.
—The phone was a flip phone, which was common in the past.
There was only one message on my phone.
【run.】
“Once players enter the villa, they will find this phone,” Yan Xun told Ning Xinian. “There’s a small note next to the phone that tells the player what the phone is for. At that point, the player can choose to believe it or not.”
"What are the consequences of not believing?" Ning Xinian asked. No matter who you look at it, it's better to have a phone in this game.
“There are no consequences,” Yan Xun said. “You’ve only been playing the game for a few minutes, and you’ll be secretly killed by the monsters because you can’t see them.”
Ning Xinian: "...This doesn't really count as a choice, does it?"
“No,” Yan Xun said. “The game doesn’t make useless choices.”
Ning Xinian didn't quite understand what he meant.
“He Jingtang and I took the route that led us to the psionic phone,” Yan Xun said to Ning Xinian as he moved nimbly around the room. “But after 200 minutes, I discovered that I could see these monsters directly.”
"I even became more agile, and my physical strength improved."
"Is it because I've become more skilled that I've become stronger?" Yan Xun finally stopped his character and went to the cellar, where he found the axe that had been hidden there before.
The Spider-Man also rushed into the cellar with a "Ahhh" sound.
“Actually, I really hate this kind of story…” Yan Xun said, but still picked up the axe and chopped at it.
Spider-Man was trying to fight back against Yan Xun while also feeling pain.
Yan Xun, who had been in the room for nearly 240 minutes, had greatly improved both his agility and strength.
Finally, after he controlled the character in the game to kill Spider-Man, he also dropped the axe in his hand.
"The first-person perspective in this game is partly to increase the horror, and partly for a twisted sense of humor."
Before Ning Xinian could understand his meaning, he saw Yan Xun pull out a hidden mirror from the cellar—
In the mirror, it is clear that the character controlled by the player has turned into a monster with many eyes on its face.
[You have been cursed by the forbidden item: the psionic cell phone.]
The only way to leave the villa is to kill the next person who enters, or be killed by them.