Chapter 14: Legend of Nightmare
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Today was destined to be a morable day for Ling PingAn.
After fighting in the rift for an entire morning, he had finally stepped into the Challenger Rank.
From now on, he had shed his mortal flesh and beco one of the best in the rift.
Ling PingAn was ecstatic.
To celebrate, he made himself a fragrant cup of tea.
Drinking the aromatic tea, Ling PingAn felt comfortable from head to toe.
He leaned back in the chair and lifted his legs onto the counter. As he sipped on the tea, he muttered to himself, “I think I’ve just lost the fun in the ga…”
All morning...
He’d been winning. He had yet to be defeated in a single match.
It felt pleasurable when he was actually playing the ga, but afterwards Ling PingAn only felt empty.
Now, he was longing for the ups and downs he had had a few days ago in the Bronze Division.
Even though at that ti he would lose more than he would win and was a real boob.
He often turned into a trash-talker, a flar, and joined into the verbal warfare himself.
He had felt really happy back then.
Unlike now. He’d only kept on winning and winning.
All his opponents couldn’t even get in a hit.
All the heroes in the rift acted like pawns who were willingly offering their lives to him. No matter what hero he played or what position he assud, he could completely stomp the enemy.
Especially as the rankings went higher and his teammates couldn’t actually keep up with him and play with him, the ga beca more and more aningless.
“Looks like I need so new challenges.”
“The pool of the rift is too small.”
“It can no longer accommodate a top pro like .”
So Ling PingAn grabbed his phone and started searching: What ga has the highest difficulty?
The results of the search returned mostly stand-alone gas.
Damned, Phantasmagoria, Stellaris…
Ling PingAn didn’t like any of them.
Mainly because he couldn’t troll people in stand-alone gas and has no one to bla when sothing happens.
For Ling PingAn, such gas were too unfriendly.
For the sa reasons, he didn’t like online gas either.
And they would require the use of real money.
Free-to-plays instantly lost their appeal.
Hitting a brick wall, Ling PingAn added a qualifier: What PvP ga has the highest difficulty?
The answer ca back with a bunch of ancient computer gas.
Dota, LoL, etc.
Ling PingAn couldn’t help but sneer. “Sitting in front of a computer and playing gas will cause spine problems…”
Ling PingAn added more qualifiers. “What PvP mobile ga has the highest difficulty?”
The answer ca back with a bunch of advertisents.
Co and hack if you’re my brother. I’m Zha Zha Hui, I’m stronger when I’m green[1], and...yada, yada.
In short, it was mostly crappy answers.
Until Ling PingAn ca across a comnt on WeChat Read.
“Legend of Nightmare is a ga that takes life as a gamble. You will not only have to sche against the enemy, you will also have to guard yourself against your own teammates. It’s really, really difficult!”
Ling PingAn tapped at the link curiously. After he’d entered, he discovered that this comnt had been made by a WeChat Read user with the ID NorthernWindz one week ago.
After the comnt was posted, soone finally replied to the comnt three days later.
Soone with the ID ILuvGas comnted, “Bro, about that Legend of Nightmare you ntioned, why can’t I find it on the Internet?”
Looking at the ti, the user with the ID NorthernWindz replied in less than a minute, “Bro, this is a secret ga. Only people who have been invited can join in. If you’re interested, you can drop a DM.”
ILuvGas hastily responded, “All right, done.”
Then, two days later, ILuvGas left a bunch of emoticons in the comnts section of the post.
Sad Face, Grovel on Ground, and even Priest Praying and Monk Chanting...
This had Ling PingAn puzzled. “What ga actually uses the invitation system?”
“From the look of it, it seems pretty difficult.”
“Let try it out then!”
At the present ti, Ling PingAn’s confidence had gotten extrely swollen.
Having attained Challenger Rank in the rift, he was eager to face more challenges.
Hence, he tapped on that ID by the na of NorthernWindz and tapped out a ssage, “Bro, can you invite to Legend of Nightmare?”
...
In a dark basent, an old computer buzzed.
Suddenly, a private ssage prompt sounded.
The person who had been leaning back in a chair in front of the computer hopped up reflexively.
He opened the private ssage imdiately and discovered that it was from a WeChat Read user with the ID na of Ling PingAn. “Bro, can you invite to Legend of Nightmare?”
He smiled and his hairy face beca distorted with glee. “Yet another sheep has fallen into my trap!”
This reminded him of the cute new face who’d arrived a few days ago. The smile at the corners of his mouth beca even bigger.
He quickly clicked on the other party’s ID. When he saw that the WeChat user account was authenticated with a real na, he got even happier. “This kind of new blood is the Nightmare’s most desirable sacrifice.”
As he spoke, he typed tip-tappingly and replied, “All right!”
He dragged up a link from the hard disk of this worn-out computer and clicked send.
Then he sat up calmly and composedly as he quietly waited for the harvest.
A newcor…
In any case, it would provide a few hundred Point Certificates.
If he was lucky, maybe he could even acquire a piece of good novice equipnt that would provide him with even more Point Certificates when he sold it.
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but drool.
His saliva flowed to the ground, corroding the floor as it sizzled with fus.
The fluorescent light of the broken computer shone on him.
He wasn’t human.
He was a wolf-headed beast, sitting in front of the computer like a human.
...
Ling PingAn looked at the link that had been sent to the ssage box of his phone. He hesitated for a mont, but, at last, for the sake of safety, he first activated the antivirus software and then tapped on the link.
As soon as he tapped on the link, his phone was quickly directed to the browser page.
Subsequently, a page that seed to be an official website loaded.
But seeing the simplicity and the ugliness of the official website, Ling PingAn couldn’t help but frown.
There was no ga introduction and no top-up channel.
There was only a line of bold words in black, “This is the kingdom of nightmares and the entrance to hell. Are you ready? Once you step in, you can’t look back.”
“Fooling around with a ga like this?” Ling PingAn laughed, “Let test how good you are.”
“If you’re not fun, I will report you for illegal operation.”
Then he tapped on the line of text.
The webpage diverted once again.
One by one, bloody words appeared on the screen.
Path into the Nightmare is opening…
Entering World…
The brightness of his phone abruptly surged.
At this mont, the kitten, who had been sleeping soundly on the counter, suddenly woke up.
ow…
The kitten jumped into Ling PingAn’s arms and curled up, trembling.
Ling PingAn hurriedly put down his phone and hugged the kitten. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, little fella, don’t be afraid. I’m here, no one will ever bully you again.”
However, little did he know that at this very mont in the eyes of the kitten the entire bookstore seed like the surface of a lake where a stone has been tossed.
Waves were surging, and winds of change were blowing everywhere.
Everything had been altered beyond recognition.
On the wall where posters had been pasted, sothing like a leech writhed from inside the wall.
Lone eyes opened on the posters.
Skittering whispers arose, conveying horrifying things among each other.
Inside the bookstore, on the seemingly empty bookshelves, asphalt-like liquid flowed between the books.
Pairs of appalling Evil Eyes opened one after another.
Taboo voices echoed in the kitten’s ears.
Just listening to these voices, the kitten was terrified, and it shuddered in terror.
All of wisdom and intelligence had departed from the room.
This horrifying bookstore was waking up and taking a different shape.
The kitten’s instinct was telling him that only in the arms of Ling PingAn could it survive.
Hence, with intense horror, the kitten used its four tiny paws to tightly grasp onto Ling PingAn’s chest, pressing itself into Ling PingAn’s body.
Ling PingAn looked at the trembling kitten in his arms and couldn’t help but sigh. “Little fella, just how much trauma did your forr master do to you?”
The sympathetic young man had no choice but to ignore his phone for a while. He picked up the kitten, stood up, and said, “Let’s go, little fella, your big brother will take you upstairs to eat so fish...”
He held the kitten, turned around, and walked to the stairs.
At the mont he turned around, the kitten could see sothing like a cloud of black mist flowing in under the door and floating toward the counter.
Then the black cloud of mist turned into small balls of light and surrounded the phone that Ling PingAn had placed on the counter.
The kitten quickly shut its eyes.
Because it knew that this was taboo. The more it had seen, the faster it would die.
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[1] Chinese s made out of funny advertisents, directly translated.
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