Games of Nightmare Chapter 1

1. [X City First People's Hospital]: The protagonist Ryan Qi downloaded a computer game called "Nightmare Game" on the Internet. After playing the first BE ending, his computer broke down. He took his laptop to be repaired, but the bus he was riding on had a traffic accident. He and the injured passengers were taken to the First People's Hospital of X City by ambulance, and met Dr. Noah in the ambulance.

After waking up again, Ryan found himself in an empty People's Hospital. He had a task system on him, requiring him to survive in the hospital until dawn. He also got a SL skill card: [SL Dafa] (bound skill card): The holder can set a save point at the location of the body. If the holder dies or suffers fatal injuries within 10 seconds after saving, the body will automatically return to the position and state when the save point was set, and immediately trigger the second use. If the save point exceeds 10 seconds, it will automatically become invalid. A save point can be used three times in a row, with a cooling time of 1 hour. Anyway, if you want to use it, you have to die.

In order to survive, Ryan had to commit suicide frequently in this haunted hospital and reload the game to save his life. He met Dr. Noah and Chloe Xue who were also involved in the game. They learned that there was a murderer in the hospital who was killing survivors everywhere. He was also a player involved in the game. With such an unexpected factor, the task of surviving until dawn became more difficult. The three of them also met another mysterious player Roger. With his help, the four of them fought wits and courage with the murderer and killed him. They also cracked the secret of the hospital more than 20 years ago and successfully avoided the big earthquake before dawn and survived until dawn.

2. [First visit to the Twilight Town]: After the mission, the four people came to the Twilight Town, a player settlement in the main world of the nightmare game. There are many ordinary people here who have the same experience as Ryan and others. They get "survival days" by constantly going to other worlds or performing tasks in the main world. Once the survival days are exhausted, they will die. In the nightmare world, except for a few human settlements that still maintain a peaceful status quo, other places have been ruled by demons. Ryan was very surprised because he found that the nightmare world and the "Nightmare Game" he played before entering here had exactly the same story background, but no one else had played this game, so he had to keep this secret and think about whether the tasks he had done in the "Nightmare Game" could also be triggered in this world. Roger, who had been very mysterious in the first mission, also confessed his identity. It turned out that he was a high-level player from the "Dawn Town". Because there was a bug in the novice village where they were, he went there to investigate. Not long after living in the Twilight Town, Ryan encountered a homicide on the road and triggered the mandatory task of "sacrificing a witch" from the dead.

3. [Sacrifice the Witch]: Ryan had no choice but to perform the "Sacrifice the Witch" mission, but during the mission, the male player will be transformed into a female appearance, because the mission background is that a small village sacrifices thirteen girls to a certain demon king every three years in order to seek the protection of the devil, so that these girls will kill each other in the forest, and finally one winner will become the witch serving the demon king. During the mission, Ryan, who became a girl, met an icy queen Mia and fell in love with her at first sight. While performing the mission with difficulty, he pursued his beloved goddess. The goddess seemed to have a good impression of him. After a series of adventures of life and death, the two finally defeated the powerful enemy and completed the mission. NPC Isabel finally became the witch serving the demon king. Before parting, the two agreed to meet on the steel bridge in the dusk village, but unfortunately found that the goddess was also a man. The two who loved each other to death in the mission quickly died in the light.

4. [Seed of Slaughter]: Ryan was hit hard by his failed first love, and unfortunately met a player who was parasitized by the Seed of Slaughter while riding on a spaceship. This player went berserk because of the outbreak of the Seed of Slaughter, and killed innocent people on the spaceship. After Ryan killed the player, he was parasitized by the Seed of Slaughter, and was taken away by the Inquisition, which was responsible for maintaining public order in the Dusk Town. In order to remove the Seed of Slaughter, he made a deal with the Inquisition and became an undercover agent who mixed into the organization of the fanatics of the Killing Demon King. Ava Chen, a businessman Ryan met in the Dusk Town, invited him to visit the grave of a mutual friend on the Island of the Dead. In the nightmare world, a tombstone will be automatically generated on the island after each player dies. As a result, Ryan found a large number of his own tombstones on the Island of the Dead. He thought that his SL skills had to be used every time he died, and he felt very scared. He suspected that he had actually died a long time ago, or that he was just a copy with his memory. On the Island of the Dead, his good friend Ava told him the story of Mia. Ryan then learned that Mia was a clergyman of the Church in the Nightmare World. The Church prohibits homos3xuality, so Mia was very painful when he learned that he was a man, and Ryan felt very guilty.

5. [Castle Terror]: Ryan and his friend Dr. Noah accepted a mission and went to a dungeon called "Castle Terror". The background of this dungeon is that three couples came to the mountains in the suburbs late at night to watch the stars for the once-in-a-century meteor shower. There was a European-style castle on the mountain built during the Republic of China. It was said to be built by a German couple who came to China for business, and later abandoned due to a fire. The local government tried to repair the castle many times, but accidents happened every time. No one has set foot in the castle now. At midnight that night, the clear night sky suddenly became overcast and it rained heavily, trapping six people on the top of the mountain. As the rain got heavier, one of them suggested taking shelter under the eaves of the castle...

After entering the castle, Ryan and others unraveled the story of the castle. It turned out that a noble lady with a family history of hereditary mental illness married her lover, but her lover loved her maid Adeline. The noble lady poisoned Adeline out of jealousy and married her lover as she wished. After marriage, they came to China to do business and built this castle. Her husband did not want her to give birth to a child who might also inherit mental illness, so he instructed the maid Nina to add mercury powder to her diet for contraception. After knowing the side effects of mercury powder, Nina secretly reduced the dosage. In the end, the lady became pregnant. Nina was very frightened when she heard that the child would be deformed. She was worried that the lady who gave birth to a deformed fetus would have a mental illness attack, so she designed her to fall down the stairs and have a miscarriage. After the miscarriage, the lady's mental state deteriorated sharply. She was often suspicious and suspected that everything was caused by the ghost of the maid Adeline, who was poisoned by her. The relationship between the couple was almost broken. In order to save her love, she began to sacrifice to the devil, and eventually turned into a demon, killing everyone in the castle and setting fire to it.

During the mission, Ryan got the laptop with the Nightmare Game installed, but the computer was out of power. He put away the computer and prepared to take it back to Twilight Town to find someone to make a transformer to connect the power supply to try to play out the ending. During the mission, Roger appeared again and said that this mission also had some abnormal reactions. He suspected that the power of the devil had polluted the mission world, causing the plot to be chaotic and the difficulty to increase. It was mainly manifested in the fact that the Mad Lady sacrificed to the devil after a mental illness attack and gained the power of the devil. This mission should not have had such a plot. With the help of Roger, Ryan and Dr. Noah successfully solved the Mad Lady and completed the mission and returned to Twilight Town, but the laptop strangely disappeared from Ryan's inventory.

6. [The Killing Secret Society]: After returning to the Twilight Town, Ryan received a notice from the Inquisition, asking him to disguise himself as the secret lover of the former head of the Killing Secret Society (deceased) to seize the Killing Secret Society's token ring in order to gain command of the Killing Secret Society and facilitate the Inquisition to catch this group of fanatics in one fell swoop. Ryan then approached the members of the Killing Secret Society as the glamorous and dissolute homos3xual "Red". Unfortunately, he encountered Mia on the spot during the mission, and both of them were stunned. During the undercover mission, Mia helped him out of trouble several times. Both of them vaguely felt that they still liked each other. Although the other party was not a woman, they would still be attracted. After successfully seizing the Killing Secret Society's token ring and handing it over to the Inquisition, Ryan removed the Seed of Killing and triggered the main quest "The Dream of the Saint Sister".

7. [The Dream of the Holy Nun]: The dream of the Holy Nun takes place in the main world, involving the past events of more than 20 years ago when the old demon king led the demons to invade the human world. At that time, the Holy City where the Church was located could not continue, and the Church urgently evacuated and went to the Neverland. The Holy Nun Maria could not bear to see the people of the Holy City being slaughtered by the demons, so she burst out with powerful power and sheltered the entire Holy City in her domain. After a battle with the old demon king, she killed him and left the Holy City with serious injuries. For more than 20 years, the Holy City was protected by the remaining power of the Holy Nun and was shrouded in fog and could not be entered. Ryan obtained the token of the Holy Nun Maria in the Twilight Village. Holding it can enter the Holy City. At the same time, he also discovered that Mia was actually the son of Maria and the player. In order to fulfill Maria's last wish------to liberate the closed and gradually dying Holy City, Ryan, Mia, Dr. Noah and Roger came to the Holy City together.

At this time, the Holy City was still peaceful, unlike the outside world where nightmares were rampant, but Ryan and his group discovered something unusual. There had been no newborns in the Holy City for more than 20 years, and starting from a certain year, every new moon night, they had to fall asleep before midnight and sleep until dawn, otherwise they would disappear. In order to find out the truth and fulfill Maria's last wish, the group began to investigate the cause of the anomaly, and finally found that it was a surviving witch beside the old devil who was accumulating strength to unlock the seal of the holy nun, causing every new moon night, sleeping humans would be transformed from humans to demons due to the influence of demonic power, and awake people would become the prey of demons, and be brutally killed and eaten. Ryan and his group opened the seal of the old site of the Vatican and acted separately.

When Ryan came to the temple where the Saint Sister and the Old Demon King had fought, he found that his friend, Roger, who had always been mysterious, gentle and powerful, was actually a demon king. He obtained part of the demon king's power after the old demon king died and had been secretly planning something. When he was in the Novice Village, he discovered that Ryan was different, so he had been deliberately approaching him and using him. He successfully followed him into the Holy City protected by the power of the Saint Sister and got part of the power of the old demon king as he wished. Roger asked Ryan to choose whether to fall into a demon or die. Ryan pretended to obey and died with Roger after saving the file, but failed because of the huge disparity in power. In the end, he was killed by Roger. Roger was summoned by the messenger of the Power Demon King and left the Holy City.

Because he had a prop that could revive him after seven days, Ryan wrote a 7 on the ground with blood before he died, wanting to tell Mia that he would be resurrected after seven days, but he suddenly remembered that in the nightmare world, 7 meant "I love you". When Mia arrived, Roger had already left, leaving only Ryan's body and a seemingly true confession. Mia realized that he actually loved Ryan deeply, regardless of gender, he loved this person's soul. So Mia returned to the Church of Eternal Nowhere after the funeral, confessed to the Pope his crime of falling in love with the same s3x, and left the Church.

The first part is finished.

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The sun rises and the moon sets, day and night alternate, and seven days pass in a flash.

The Holy Sepulchre Garden is gently wrapped in a barrier.

This place had been scorched by the scorching sun and attacked by afternoon rainstorms. Countless monsters lingered outside the barrier, showing malicious curiosity about the fresh breath of humans inside the barrier. However, they dispersed reluctantly because they could not destroy the barrier.

The breeze blew by, rolling up the blue and white petals on the branches, and they fell to the ground, and the tree hole became a cemetery. In just seven days, layer after layer of petals had covered the person sleeping in the tree tomb, burying him and the fallen flowers in this obliterated city.

[Resurrection countdown: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds. ]

[The Easter egg is effective, returning all skills and props. 】

[Player Ryan, complete the Saint Nun's dream mission. Mission completion rate 117%. Obtain special mission clues. Arrive at the purgatory deep in the underground ant city within 23 days to trigger the mission automatically. Failure to do so will be considered as giving up the mission.]

[The bonus survival days are 90 days. If unexpected factors interfere with the task progress, an additional bonus survival days will be 10 days. ]

[Player Ryan achieved the achievement "Deceiving the Deceitful Demon King". Rewarded with the skill card "Secret Observation". ]

Ryan opened his eyes.

Stiffness, soreness, heaviness... numerous negative conditions were stacked on his body, making him almost think he was paralyzed. The world was a patchwork of light and shadow, but the fresh scent of flowers and plants came from his nose.

The heart started beating again, the blood started flowing again, the lungs started rising and falling again, Ryan was gasping for breath, his body, which had been suspended in death for seven days, was as if he had just been lifted out of an ice coffin, his organs had almost forgotten how to function, and could only restart with difficulty, turning him from a dead man back into a living person.

It took him a long time to remember everything, including his own name. Then things went much more smoothly. Ryan quickly recalled where he was and what he had experienced. He was killed by the Deception Demon King. The murderer obtained the old demon's demon crystal and left, but he concealed the fact that he would be resurrected in seven days.

Mia!

Ryan suddenly sat up from the tree grave. He felt dizzy due to the lack of blood supply, and his spine made a frightening "crackling" sound, which made him almost think it was going to break. Fortunately, it held on strongly. Because of the lack of oxygen to the brain, Ryan lay back down and stared at the blue sky and white clouds above his head in a daze.

The dream mission of the Holy Nun has been completed, which means that Maria's domain has been unlocked. There is no doubt that the person who completed it was not the "lying win" Ryan, but Mia. Since the mission has been completed, Mia may have left the Holy City, and he stayed in the Holy Tomb Garden because Mia left his "corpse" here.

Thank God Mia did not cremate him, thanks to the custom of the Vatican!

Orthodox church members usually place the body in an open coffin, cover it with cloth or other materials, and wait until the body decays into bones before closing the coffin and burying it. If the body is buried directly in the ground, the power of faith cannot dissipate, and the body often cannot rot for several years, so it needs to be placed in the open air first to wait for the power of faith to dissipate naturally. This process is also believed to be the process of the soul ascending to heaven.

Although Ryan was not a member of the Vatican, Mia still followed the custom and left his body intact.

After his body regained some strength, Ryan's thinking returned to its normal state from the initial sluggishness. He sat up, drank some water, and thought about what happened after his "death".

Death is like a sleep that is extremely drowsy. One can no longer feel anything in the outside world, but begins to "dream".

A dream that was vague but made him feel lost.

He dreamed of Mia's mother, Maria.

She sat on the swing in the Holy Sepulchre Garden, the same tree that was later struck by lightning. It was still lush and green. At that time, Maria was not yet the famous holy nun she later became. She was just a young girl, swinging on the swing on a warm afternoon, enjoying the beautiful leisure time of youth.

Ryan walked towards her. Maria saw him, smiled and nodded to him, her blue eyes were like the clear blue sky.

The sky... Ryan's consciousness was shocked by the deep blue. He suddenly flew up, as if his soul had transcended his body. He rose higher and higher. The Garden of the Holy Sepulchre under his feet began to become small, and the old site of the Vatican also became distant. The whole holy city was taken in his sight, and then there were the mountains and rivers in the distance... Countless demons were wandering, and mankind was suffering unprecedented hardships and struggling to survive. The cruelty of this world was beyond his imagination.

He seemed to be a god overlooking the world, looking at the devastated land with compassionate eyes, grieving but powerless. This pain whipped his soul, and great sadness tortured him. He wanted to do something for the world, but found himself as weak as an ant.

"Look, when you stand at this height, you will find that you are even smaller and more powerless than you imagined."

A gentle female voice came from behind. Ryan "saw" Maria behind him and understood why there was always an lingering compassion and sadness in her eyes.

"But humans, who are so fragile, still stubbornly fight against this world, mastering their own destiny and the destiny of this world. We never give up. Let the devils return to hell, let humans dominate this world, and let outsiders like you return to your own world. Successive martyrs are working hard for this, and one day, this dream will come true."

"Ms. Maria, why did we come here from our own world?" asked the Qi Le people.

Maria shook her head gently: "This is something that can only be decided by the will of the world. We guess that it was just an accident at first, and then it intentionally brought in more outsiders, hoping that you would maintain this unbalanced world. Unfortunately, there are too many variables in you, and the fallen outsiders have aggravated this imbalance... It still hasn't given up... You have to be careful, you are already being observed."

The feeling of being watched from behind was unbearable. Ryan wanted to ask more questions, but he had already started to fall.

It descended rapidly from the sky and fell to the earth!

The feeling of weightlessness was like every night when he was awakened by a nightmare. He woke up in horror and sweat at the memory of death.

All that was left was Maria's gentle but regretful voice: "I can't tell you anything more. Come to the temple, I have something to give you."

The dream about Maria ended. Ryan, who came back to life, recalled this strange dream. He understood that this was not an ordinary dream, but the residual power of Maria was affecting him. It seemed that he had to go to the temple at the highest point of the former site of the Vatican again.

As his body gradually regained strength, Ryan stared blankly at the church uniform covering him and the withered white rose on it. All the things about Mia that he dared not think about came back to his mind one after another.

Love at first sight when they met, affection that grew in danger, sharing life and death when disaster struck...the beauty of these memories was once deeply buried in the shock of meeting again, but his death was the key to awaken everything, and the confession that should not have been said was the straw that broke the camel's back.

He should not say anything, he should die in silence.

If time could go back and Ryan could choose again, he would definitely not write down the number 7. He would rather swallow this overflowing love silently and let Mia think that he was really dead, rather than force him to walk down that dead end that would lead him into hell.

He couldn't tell someone he loved deeply, and who perhaps also loved him deeply, that he loved him.

Because this is an unacceptable and sinful love.

He was not afraid of falling in love with Mia, but he was afraid that this love would bring pain to Mia. He was even afraid of the hopeful and yearning self deep in his heart - how could he expect a saint to admit his sins just to respond to his love?

This secret expectation is selfish and even sinful.

How is Mia now? Where is he? Will he return to the Vatican? Can he ever go back?

When love breaks through the barriers of taboo, how can a devout believer face the reality that he has deviated from his faith? He is destined to give up one of them.

Ryan reached out his hand tremblingly and picked up the bouquet of white roses placed on him.

The roses had long since withered, withered yellow, fragile petals falling from the thorn-free stems, exactly seven in number.

That was Mia's silent answer.

Ryan slowly smiled, but his eyes were moistened------

On the ring finger of his left hand, there was a ring woven with grass stems. It was so rough and simple, like a little gadget made by a beginner. If it fell on the ground, no one would even look at it.

But it happened to be worn on Ryan's ring finger, a place that symbolizes love, commitment, and eternity.

Therefore, it is destined not to be a casually woven toy, but the most loyal and courageous answer of a devout believer after questioning himself and subverting his faith.

A pair of lovers who should not be in love, at the two ends of life and death, each spoke words from the bottom of their souls.

I love you.