“We’re all trying so hard to stay alive…”
The Dayun truck driver hummed a slightly off-key song as he rolled over a speed bump.
“What’s stuck to my wheel?”
Though he found it a little strange, he didn’t pay it much mind.
Because the sensation of something foreign soon disappeared.
At that moment, the “speed bump” in the heavy truck driver’s mouth—Lu Ming—fell into darkness after a burst of excruciating pain.
He did not know how much time had passed before he slowly opened his eyes.
Before him was an endless expanse of pitch-black darkness.
Within the darkness was an enormous sphere of light, flickering bright and dim, pulsing slowly like it was breathing.
Around the sphere, countless densely packed little points of light were scattered, giving off a faint glow.
As a university student who had read countless web novels and watched countless movies, a bold thought surfaced in Lu Ming’s mind.
Could it be that after being struck dead by the Dayun truck, he had arrived in a place similar to the Main God’s Space?
These densely packed little points of light were individual worlds.
And the overlapping black silhouettes within the lights were the people in those worlds.
His five senses gradually returned, and noisy discussions reached his ears.
Only then did Lu Ming realize that the area around him was actually packed full of people.
“New here? Want to hang with big sis? I’ll teach you how to assign your initial attributes.”
A woman with an excellent figure walked over with a playful smile, the beauty mark at the corner of her eye dancing with a seductive fire.
She had been bored in this place for too long and rarely saw a handsome young guy like this, so naturally she had to come over and tease him a little.
“Assign initial attributes?”
Lu Ming let out a soft sound of surprise, and then saw that a semitransparent panel had indeed appeared in front of him.
This panel seemed visible only to him, and recorded all sorts of detailed values about him.
【Available Points: 10】
【Mental Power: 4】
【Stamina: 1】
【Strength: 2】
【Speed: 3】
【???】
Lu Ming considered his physical condition not exactly strong, but still somewhere around average.
Yet the numbers displayed on the panel were basically all below 3.
This meant that the increase brought by each attribute point was quite considerable.
The woman began to explain:
“There are countless horror movie world instances here. Challengers can choose to enter different instances. As for the initial attribute points, you can understand them as a benefit for newbie challengers. Tier Three challengers can even exchange points for items.
“After everyone’s testing, the optimal distribution is 2 points into Mental Power, 4 into Stamina, 1 into Strength, and 3 into Speed.”
“So they’re horror movie worlds?”
Lu Ming understood.
He expressed his understanding of what the woman said.
According to this conventional way of thinking, the main attributes to invest in were Stamina and Speed, with Mental Power coming next.
Because in horror movie worlds, if you wanted to survive, you had to run fast and run for a long time.
For example, some domestic zombie films, or zombie movies like Train to Busan, as well as disaster films like Anaconda.
Anyone who ran slowly was done for.
Next was Mental Power.
Those whose mental fortitude was insufficient would be scared into trembling at the first big scene they encountered, their legs refusing to obey them.
No matter how fast such a person could normally run, it would be useless.
However, after chatting with this woman for a while, Lu Ming learned that most of the people in this Main God’s Space had come here from different parallel worlds.
And as for these familiar horror movie worlds before them, they had actually never even heard of them.
Lu Ming pointed to one side. “There are a lot of people gathered over there. What are they doing?”
“They’re forming teams. Challengers are forbidden from killing each other. Otherwise, points will be deducted as punishment depending on the situation. The Main God of this space encourages everyone to help each other.”
The woman seemed to think of something else and threw Lu Ming a flirtatious wink.
“My last batch of teammates all died. I’m looking for new teammates now. If you don’t mind, you can join my team. My name is Chen Xin. Just call me Sister Xin. I’m a Tier Two challenger, you know.”
“Thank you for your kindness, Sister Xin. Then I’ll allocate my points according to what you said.”
Lu Ming did not directly refuse. Instead, he smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.
Then, without a change in expression, he added all 10 attribute points into Mental Power.
His thinking was different from these people’s.
The effect produced by evenly distributing resources was often inferior to taking an unorthodox path and tilting all resources toward a single point.
It was like raising a hard carry with the entire team’s economy in a MOBA, or a glass cannon in a loot-shoot-extract game.
Especially when the instances here were all horror movie worlds.
Mental Power would absolutely come in useful.
After the allocation was complete, Lu Ming’s panel refreshed.
【Available Points: 0】
【Mental Power: 14】
【Stamina: 1】
【Strength: 2】
【Speed: 3】
【???】
A strange feeling arose in Lu Ming’s mind.
The grogginess brought on by long-term late nights vanished. His head was no longer muddled or heavy, and his attention was easier to focus than before.
These were only the most immediate sensations.
The benefits brought by the Mental Power increase were far too numerous for Lu Ming to describe one by one in words.
When he looked again at those faintly glowing spheres, lines of small text had appeared beside them—the introductions to these instances.
【Mr. Vampire】
【Difficulty: ☆☆】
【Mission: Follow Uncle Jiu to investigate and seal the zombies in the mortuary】
【Reward: 2 attribute points】
……
【Final Destination】
【Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆】
【Mission: Survive for one month】
【Reward: 10 attribute points】
……
【A Nightmare on Elm Street】
【Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆☆☆】
【Mission: Deal with the mind-based evil ghost Freddy in a dream】
【Reward: Unknown reward】
……
Lu Ming roughly swept his gaze over them.
They were all very familiar films.
The Ring, The Wicked Ghost, Bunshinsaba, The Shining…
When he cast his gaze toward a point of light, an option box of 【Yes/No】 would appear. Choosing “Yes” would allow him to enter.
“Among these instances, for most of them, even if you knew the plot in advance, ordinary people would absolutely go in and never return. Not to mention, the challengers who came here originally lived in worlds where these horror films didn’t exist.
“No wonder Chen Xin’s teammates were wiped out inside.”
Just then, Lu Ming suddenly discovered an existence different from all the other points of light around it.
The other points of light were marked with colors according to difficulty.
Two stars were blue, four stars were purple, five stars were gold, eight stars were red…
Only this one presented a deathly, dim gray.
The feeling this color gave off was very strange, as if something incomparably brilliant had burned out and been left here, becoming utterly cold.
【????】
【Difficulty: ????】
【Mission: ????】
【Reward: None】
【Forbidden Zone of Life (Abandoned)】
Looking at the huge pile of question marks, Lu Ming frowned.
In such a bizarre world, everything was unknown. No one would go there, but it would definitely attract everyone’s attention.
Yet no one was paying any attention to it.
It was as if only Lu Ming alone could see this point of light.
“I still haven’t figured out the Main God’s Space. A strange world like this has even less to do with me.”
Lu Ming knew that his current self should already be dead.
Why would a dead person exist in this Main God’s Space?
Lu Ming did not know.
What he was thinking now was to first clear a few instances, become a Tier Three challenger, and see whether he could obtain more useful information after unlocking the Main God Store.
【Enter this world?】
【No/Yes】
Out of habit, Lu Ming chose the “No” on the right.
“Fuck!”
The next moment, Lu Ming’s figure grew blurry and vanished from where he stood.
Quite a few people noticed the situation on this side and began discussing it with lingering fear.
Especially the woman named Chen Xin, whose eyes were filled with disbelief.
Before a challenger entered an instance, their figure would become blurry, then gradually be decomposed.
The color during the body’s decomposition represented the difficulty of the selected instance.
And at this moment, Lu Ming’s body was presenting a despairing deathly gray.
Chen Xin had interacted with a Tier Three challenger before. The other party had exchanged for a Space Rules manual in the Main God Store.
There had been records inside.
【In a shattered Main God’s Space, there is an extremely low probability of operational errors occurring, producing a deathly gray world.】
【If a deathly gray world is discovered, move away immediately!】
“What a pity. After waiting so long for a handsome young guy to show up, he actually ran into a system bug.”
Chen Xin shook her head with some regret.
But she only sighed briefly.
In this Main God’s Space, human lives were like grass.
Otherwise, Chen Xin would not have been so indifferent toward the deaths of her previous teammates.
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