The scene in front of him flashed before his eyes, Bai Yan was free from the ga and finally returned to the real world.
Discovering that he was back to where he was before, the first thing that Bai Yan did was to inspect the room’s wall clock. He was inside the ga for half an hour. However, only a minute had passed in the real world.
‘So 30 minutes inside the ga was equivalent to a minute in the real world, or no matter how much ti passed by in the ga, it will always be one minute in the real world?’
This thought flashed through Bai Yan’s mind. But before he could continue pondering about it, a sudden burst of vertigo suddenly struck him out of nowhere.
Since noon, he hadn’t eaten or drank anything due to him being, at that ti, extrely agitated. He had montarily forgotten about this matter, so after a while, he was finally able to relax. The fatigue caused by the ga and hunger from starving for a day, ca in thick and fast, surging in his body to express protest.
“I can’t even call for take out in this kind of circumstances. Forget it, I’ll just eat whatever I have.”
Bai Yan stared at the blood-stained floor. Because of his dripping clothes, the floor was colored by bloody water and had even spread through the surrounding area.
Additionally, because his balance earlier was unstable, resulting in him propping his hand against the wall to support himself, a clear bloody handprint was left on the wall. If people were to see it, it may be impossible to fool them with the excuse that it was just art.
After being soaked thoroughly in blood, he didn’t know if he could still use it…
The diary needed so ti to be completely dried. Although Bai Yan slept for a long ti at noon, he was still feeling groggy. And so, he turned off the lights, closed his eyes, and drifted off into dreamland.
……
At 5 AM, Bai Yan’s body clock naturally woke him up.
After consuming his oatal for breakfast, Bai Yan opened his cellphone and clicked on the black and red app.
Unlike the first ti he pressed on it, this ti, when he clicked on the app, he was not transported into the ga.
The app showed round checkpoints with the numbers from 1 through 12 on them.
Among them, the ‘1’ icon was illuminated, indicating that he had already cleared that level of the ga. The following numbers from 3 to 12 were not unlocked yet, but the 2nd level had a countdown to it. Bai Yan looked at the tir. The ti showed that there were six days left, which was the next Monday.
In addition to the 12 level icons, on the upper right side of the app, there was an interesting icon. Bai Yan clicked it open and discovered that this was a forum. Inside the forum were full of posts regarding the ga ‘Frontline of Hell.’
[A noobs’ must-read! The forum’s most comprehensive ga tutorial!]
[Five veterans discuss their experiences on surviving the ga. Enter to take a look.]
[Noob Requesting for Help: I’ve just survived the newcor level, the first level’s easy mode was already so hard. Wouldn’t the second level’s ordinary mode be more chilling? Seeking an expert’s guidance!]
[OP Seventh Level God! Looking for reliable teammates! Players who don’t suck can enter!! Looking for a team! Looking for a team! Looking for a team!]
…
There were all kinds of weird threads on the forum, but most of them discussed information about the ga. Bai Yan followed his interest and spent the whole morning browsing through the forum. The forum provided lots of information regarding the nature of the ga and also summarized so important information.——
1. According to the forum’s earliest post, ‘Frontline of Hell’ was a ga that first appeared a year ago.
2. The ga has a total of 12 levels. The first level was in easy mode. The second to the sixth level was an ordinary mode. From seven to nine, the difficulty was raised to hard. And finally, from level 10 to 12, the levels were on hell mode.
According to a popular theory of an old gar, once the ga was successfully cleared, there would be a grand prize waiting for the player. The prize was to fulfill a wish that the player had. However, currently, only a few gars have reached the 10th level, which was currently the highest level entered. After they have entered the 11th level, there wasn’t any news on these players in the forums, reckoning that they must’ve died inside the ga.
3. ‘Frontline of Hell’s’ purpose was still unclear. Many talked about conspiracy theories in the forum, but they still lacked trustworthy evidence. However, there was only one thing that the veteran gars agreed upon, which was that ‘Frontline of Hell’ didn’t force its players to die. Each level in the ga had a corresponding life path and death path. Avoiding the death path would be a really big help in clearing the ga.
4. You must properly protect your phone. All levels of the ga require the use of the app’s ‘return’ button to finish the ga. But players don’t need to worry about their phone’s safety. No matter if your phone was a counterfeit or was a slot machine, just as long as the app is downloaded, your phone will be water-resistant, fire-resistant, and shock-resistant.
5. Every seven days, players need to advance to the next level. The total number of days to reach level 12 is 78 days, which was around three months. From the ti the first post on the forum was up, the ga had already progressed through four cycles.
6. The ga levels have the sa corresponding rules and regulations.
a. According to the priority rule, gars who are playing the sa difficulty will be prioritized to be matched together. For example, ordinary level to ordinary level and difficult to difficult level.
b. Players who start the ga at the sa ti will also be matched together.
Because of this rule, players prefer looking for teammates in the forum, trying to find reliable support. Through the real world, they exchange each other’s contact information and agree upon a good ti for them to enter the ga at the sa ti.
…
After reviewing the new information, Bai Yan ca back to the app’s ho page and was baffled by the ‘gift’ icon on the twelfth level.
“If clearing the ga ans I can get my wish granted…then did that also include reviving soone?”
Bai Yan blankly stared at the icon, his expression gradually becoming more peculiar.
After Wang Ze’s death, it was his first ti experiencing ecstatic bliss. But unfortunately, it wasn’t him who stabbed Wang Ze to death. In the end, this made him feel unparalleled regret, and every ti he thought about it, his heart would feel empty.
But now, he had the chance to bring him back to life. And then, after that…he’ll stab him to death himself.
Throughout Bai Yan’s life, there were only occasional happy matters that made him feel incomparably satisfied. Then, if there were two events, two happy events that coincided together, it would surely bring him to double the happiness. Thinking of the expression that Wang Ze’s would have, he was already itching to see it.
Having a new goal, Bai Yan’s attitude towards the ga wasn’t as casual anymore. This ga’s mortality rate was exorbitantly high. If he had a playful attitude during the ga, sooner or later, he would suffer a setback in so level.
Moreover, according to the veteran gars’ information from the forum, the further he went into the ga’s levels, the more likely he would encounter acquaintances. If he had allowed himself to let loose and later t with an old acquaintance, it would be extrely easy for them to target himself.
If it were before, Bai Yan wouldn’t mind if soone took vengeance on him. It would be a beautiful and joyful experience, an early death ans an early transcendence. However, now, he only had thoughts of clearing the ga and obtaining that reward. So, he decided that from the gas that had happened, later on, he was going to be a ‘nice’ person. He was going to sincerely repent for what he had done and fix his mistakes, turning himself into a good Samaritan who helped others.
After confirming his plan of operating, Bai Yan decided to restrain himself a bit during future gas. He would act low key as though he were playing PUBG until he reached the 12th level.
Lowering his head, he looked at the ti. There were still a couple of minutes until noon. He opened the app’s forum and intended to scroll through a few more technical posts, then go out to buy white paint, followed by eating lunch.
As a result, when he had opened the forum, he found an unlucky thread——
[Encountered a psychopath in the ga! Be careful when you et him!]
[Reply 1: I was a newcor, who had just passed the easy level. The ga I was in was called the ‘Supernatural Jigsaw.’
Because it was my first ti entering the ga, I felt terrified. In the end, I still managed to clear the level in a struggle but couldn’t clarify the situation. I’ll roughly explain what had happened. Everyone, please help figure out what went wrong.
(P.S. The ga design had four players)
This was how it went. The ga required us to complete a puzzle while sitting on the chair for 30 minutes. The puzzle was easy to find, so everyone had found it pretty quickly.
But, there were ghosts in the puzzles. So, a middle-aged man began to forcibly take a junior high student’s puzzle piece. As a weak lady, fear overca my body and made look the other way.
However, at this mont, a young man bravely stepped forward to help the junior high student, despite him looking like a feeble chicken. In the end, the middle-aged man had snatched away the young man’s puzzle. I thought that the young man was a good person and even admired his courageous act.]
[Reply 2: What happened after? Wait for the plot twist.]
[Reply 3: After this young man had given back the junior high student’s puzzle, he received the middle-aged man’s puzzle, which had ‘a large ghost’ on it. The young man then grabbed a pile of clothes and sat at my left.
Because I was curious about his actions, I struck a conversation with him and asked why he took a lot of clothes with him.
Towards asking him from out of the blue, this little brother didn’t feel annoyed. Instead, he used his precious puzzle-solving ti to explain to his reasons. He even pointed out to that the snacks I got from the table were an offering to the starving ghost to help survive. (My head wasn’t in the right place and I was under a lot of pressure, so I grabbed so food and was planning to eat them. I even took a bite from a chocolate bar.)
When I heard his analysis, I felt that it was very reasonable. I imdiately worshipped this young brother and was even prepared to hug his thighs. This situation was quite normal up until here. But the crucial point was what happened afterward when I found out that this little brother was, in reality, not a good person at all…]
“…” That’s right. This familiar plot must’ve co from the girl he had t in the ga.
As soon as he planned to ‘sincerely repent for what he had done and fix his mistakes,’ he was caught off guard and was exposed. Bai Yan deeply experienced what was called ‘appropriate retribution.’
However, Bai Yan didn’t abandon himself to despair just because of this.
The author has sothing to say:
Tomorrow, I will update the follow-up of the MC’s exposure and continue enjoying the exposure ti.
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