Chapter 6

Chapter 6

At two o’clock in the morning, the lights on Maple Leaf Street were bright.

This was the busiest bar street in the new district of Jiangyuan.

“Damn it, damn it! A bunch of dogs!” A man reeking of alcohol was propped out of the bar door, thrown on the ground like trash.

Someone kicked him in the butt, but it wasn’t clear who.

Laughter echoed around without any attempt to hide it.

He fell, dizzy, cursing and covering his forehead that had been hit by a bottle. Blood flowed through his fingers, smearing his face and hands, mixing with the smell of alcohol into a pungent odor.

“Hiss——” The pain from the wound on his forehead made the man grimace, “Just wait for me......”

“There are many of you this time, I won’t stoop to your level......” He cursed while glaring back at the bar, spat forcefully, and finally left the bar reluctantly.

Compared to the brightly lit and noisy bar, the dark and quiet alley at the back door was like a different world.

There was not a single figure on the road. A garbage can that had not been cleaned for a long time was knocked over by someone, and the garbage that spilled out emitted a foul smell. The long-neglected street light was leaning on the side of the road, its shadow under the moonlight looked like a ghost.

At two o’clock in the deep night, it was as quiet as a graveyard.

For some reason, Han Shan felt a little creeped.

“Damn......” He cursed softly, but he didn’t choose to turn back and take another road. As a person who had been hanging around bars and casinos for many years, he believed he had the courage to walk alone at night.

But such an association was a bit ominous for him.

He shook his dizzy head and continued to walk forward unsteadily.

But he hadn’t walked far...

Pada!

A drop of water fell on his head, followed by the second, the third...In a blink of an eye, countless droplets were falling down with a pitter-patter.

“Damn it!”

Han Shan cursed again, feeling unlucky.

“It’s actually raining...”

The wound on his forehead was washed by the rain, causing another wave of intense pain. In the end, he could only grit his teeth, take off his coat to cover his head, and start running. He was in a very sorry state.

If he remembered correctly, there was probably about five hundred meters to the end of this alley. Not far from the alley entrance was a cheap small hotel that had been open for many years. He could take shelter from the rain there, or simply spend the night...

The increasing rain was smearing the whole world like ink, and the blood flowing down his forehead made his vision increasingly blurry and dizzy. Han Shan felt his body heating up, and his steps were getting heavier and heavier. It was as if he was carrying a growing mountain on his back.

Just when he thought he was going to collapse in this alley, suddenly, a beam of pale yellow warm light came from the front, casting a faint glow on his face.

He looked up.

In his blurry vision, a somewhat old inn appeared in the night. The door of the inn was not tightly closed, and the light was shining out from the crack of the door.

Through the curtain of rain, he vaguely saw a figure in the door crack.

Han Shan immediately perked up, his whole body suddenly energized. He ran over in two or three strides and pushed open the half-closed door.

“Is the boss here? I want to stay...stay...”

His voice suddenly choked, as if a walnut was suddenly stuck in his throat. His impatient steps also stopped, and he just stood stiffly at the door, his hand on the door shaking violently.

The dim yellow light illuminated the blood all over the floor. Two cold bodies lay not far from him, one in front of the other. A man was squatting on the ground with his back to him, one hand touching the body on the ground, seemingly doing something strange.

Disturbed by the noise of his pushing the door, the man turned around—

Han Shan’s body started to shake violently.

The scene before his eyes scared him.

This sudden shock was like a huge hammer hitting him. His head, which was already dizzy from the injury and the fever from the rain, buzzed, and he swayed and fell to the ground, his hands smeared with blood.

But he was dizzy and weak, and didn’t have the strength to get up.

“Ah, the first time I do this kind of thing, and I was caught...”

“Unsurprisingly easy to deceive.”

“...It really gives no sense of accomplishment.”

He spread out his palm, a coin quietly lay there, the surface was complex and gorgeous patterns.

——It was tails.

He flicked the coin into the air again and caught it.

...Where was there any choice of fate.

...Rather, he was fate.

——At least, in the script he wove, he was the one who controlled the direction of the story, including the life and death of the other party......he was fate itself.

Pulling his gaze back from the window, the man turned around again, the hem of his coat drawing an arc in mid-air, “Compared to that guy who gives no sense of accomplishment, these two bodies seem more interesting.”

He squatted down and reached out to poke the face of the corpse.

“It’s clearly a product formed by the crystallization of nightmares, but the touch is so realistic.....I wonder if it’s just superficial, or if the internal structure is the same as a real corpse? How did they do it?”

“I really want to see...”

Just as he seemed to want to do something outrageous, in the upper right corner of his vision, a virtual clock that only he could see suddenly flashed, the minute hand gently jumped, the scale was infinitely close to the hour.

“An hour has passed so quickly?”

He murmured in disappointment and stood up.

“Never mind, for a first attempt, this level is enough. From now on, all I have to do is wait...”

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

In an instant, the entire inn, along with the man himself, disappeared at a rapid speed, as if being erased from a white paper by an invisible eraser, until it was completely empty.

****

Meanwhile, an abandoned old city district, almost back-to-back adjacent with the bustling Jiangyuan district.

On the second floor of an old building.

Bai Yi opened his eyes, his gaze cast out the window.

The rain curtain blocked his vision, the heavy tree shadows in the distance and the continuous eaves merged into one.

He raised his palm, and a phantom card slowly condensed in his palm. On the card, a man shrouded under a black umbrella revealed a smile, his expression unpredictable.

“Oh my, oh my, the first performance seems to have gone well~”

Bai Yi raised an eyebrow, revealing a pleased smile, the curve getting bigger and bigger.

He recalled what the system had “said” before.

Clear the nightmare game, and you can realize all wishes, become an omnipotent god...

...Let me see if this is just a bluff false advertising, or if there is some possibility.

Thinking this, Bai Yi casually flipped the card in his fingers.

On the back of the card, were lines of brief character settings.

[A ghost that appears in the rainy night at any time]

[A butcher who brings slaughter and blood]

[A pleasure offender who is good at playing with people’s hearts]

——K

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