Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

“No! Tony doesn’t like it here, Bruce doesn’t like it either, Rogers wants us to leave quickly, Natasha is scared, Thor is angry… they don’t like it at all.”

Tony was the name of Danny's thumb, and so were the others. He named his fingers and talked to them.

Seeing her son's condition, Wendy's eyes flashed with pain, but she forced a smile and stroked her son's head: "Danny, we don't have much money, so this is the only place we can choose. And it's really nice here! The walls are freshly painted, and the furniture has all been replaced."

She couldn't help but sniffle. "Uh, there's a slight odor, but it'll be fine if we open the window." With that, Wendy pushed the window up to ventilate the house.

Because it was newly cleaned, it saved the mother and son a lot of trouble.

Keep in mind that Wendy works eleven hours a day, without a single day off for a month, yet only earns $980. She's so exhausted after a day's work that she can't even get out of bed.

The financial crisis that broke out a few years ago is still not over.

Although President Lee Kun-tae has introduced many policies since taking office, the data usually shows a quick response, with various government departments issuing directives and policies, but it takes a very long time for these policies to reach the grassroots level of society.

Because of Danny's own reasons, he was unable to attend school and had to stay home alone during the day.

Since moving into the apartment, he seems to have become even more withdrawn. He hardly ever talks to his own fingers anymore.

He began having frequent nightmares, and would even fall asleep while spacing out, experiencing terrifying hallucinations.

He dreamed of all sorts of bizarre and fantastical scenes. Sometimes he would dream of people he had never seen before, terrifying monsters, strange landscapes, and mirrors with human faces on them.

……

That day, Zhao Hao was feeding the Minions and King Kong Bananas in his dream.

The banana groves in the dream world are now quite a sight to behold.

The magic mirror suddenly appeared; it had finally completed its devouring and evolution a few days ago. Now it's like a completely different beast.

Even the load on the dream game server has decreased, and its operation and control are becoming increasingly easier.

There's even "surplus computing power" used to monitor and interfere with the real and virtual worlds!

The magic mirror appeared, its face beaming with a fawning smile: "Great master, ruler of dreams, the man behind countless players, creator of the metaverse..." The flattery just kept coming.

"Stop! Stop talking nonsense and get to the point." Zhao Hao stuffed a banana into the magic mirror's mouth.

"Hehe~ Thank you for the banana, Master! This banana is very precious, let the Minions eat it first!"

"Ok?"

"No, Master, please forgive me. It was the Magic Mirror that discovered a promising talent and came to report it to you."

Zhao Hao shrugged it off: "Potential talent? What potential talent? What potential talent haven't I seen?"

The magic mirror said, "Yes, yes, Master, you are very knowledgeable. I was just making a fuss. But that child is indeed quite interesting, so..."

"tell me the story."

"Yes. The boy's name is Danny, and he's eight years old. He can travel through dreams without having awakened any psychic abilities."

Zhao Hao nodded: "Some people are exceptionally talented and can indeed control their dreams, which is not surprising."

"But yesterday, he actually stumbled into the fantasy game!"

Zhao Hao was taken aback. "You've stumbled into... a fantasy game? What does that mean?"

"He wasn't a player, but he broke through the game barrier and entered the game. It was as if something was chasing him in a dream, and in his panic, he crashed into the game, which is how I discovered him."

Zhao Hao fell silent.

Does the absence of a game signature or being a non-gamer mean that one absolutely cannot enter the game? No.

Game marks are meant to help those who cannot freely enter the game, but it does not mean that no one can enter the game on their own.

It's like being a superhuman, although most people awaken their psychic abilities through stimulation or training.

However, a very small number of people awaken naturally. They are born extraordinary!

However, even if you are born with extraordinary abilities, don't even think about entering the fantasy game on your own.

Unless one is born with an exceptional talent for dreaming.

Such people should be kept under your control; leaving them out could become a hidden danger.

Zhao Hao became interested. "Give me the information, I'll take a look..."

……

At that moment, Wendy was cooking.

She needs to cook and eat within half an hour and then go back to work. Being late will result in a deduction from her pay.

Although the rent here was cheap, which relieved her, the pressure of life was still constantly chasing after her.

In her haste, she made a mistake and, distracted, accidentally cut her hand with a knife.

The wound wasn't deep, but blood still flowed out.

To avoid worrying her son Danny, and because she was too exhausted to feel pain, she just wanted to cook for him as quickly as possible and then go to work.

She quickly ran inside to find gauze to stop the bleeding, then ran back to the kitchen to continue cooking.

What she didn't notice was that as she rushed past, a few drops of blood from her hand fell onto the floor.

But those few drops of blood quickly seeped into the floor, leaving no trace.

At this moment, a shriveled heart beneath the floor was moistened by a few drops of blood, began to slowly expand, and then started to beat gently.

The young man who had become a demon in hell has begun to revive!

Danny seemed to sense something; at the first beat of his heart, his hand began to twitch, and then he started screaming, "Blood! Death! Blood! Death..."

Wendy quickly dropped the kitchen knife and ran back to the bedroom to hug her son: "Danny, Danny, Mommy's here, don't be afraid, don't be afraid..." While comforting her son, she herself began to shed tears involuntarily.

She was reminded of her husband's death, which was what Danny had experienced.

She really couldn't take it anymore and wished she could just die!

Death... She was momentarily stunned.

Just this February, her husband Danny's father, Jack, died.

The series of events leading up to their deaths nearly drove the mother and son to a mental breakdown.

If their psychic abilities were tested now, Wendy would score 6, far exceeding that of ordinary people because she personally experienced bizarre events and her husband's tragic death.

As for Danny, who looks quite abnormal, he has a height of 8, which is even higher than when Zhao Hao first transmigrated.

In the afternoon, Wendy had to call her boss to ask for leave so she could stay home with her son, who was still shaken and suspected of having an epileptic seizure.

The shop owner told her that not only would today's wages be deducted, but because she hadn't given prior notice, an additional day's wages would also be deducted.

As night fell, the mother and son lay in bed fast asleep.

Wendy frowned as if she was very uncomfortable, while Danny was struggling incessantly, his hand, which bore the name, groping all over the bed.

In the dream, a terrifying monster with no skin and a bloody, mangled body chases Danny.

Danny had five figures helping him, but the blood-soaked man kept getting closer and closer!

"Ha~ Johnny's here!"

Suddenly, a balding man carrying an axe slowly walked over from another direction, a terrifying smile on his face.

It was Danny's deceased father, Jack.

He froze to death, so his face was ashen and even covered in ice crystals.

Even so, the mocking and malicious smile on his face was still so obvious. He was definitely not there to help.

In fact, in his final moments, he was holding an axe, ready to kill the mother and daughter.

In the surface world, on the living room floor of the apartment, a disgusting monster with no skin, only bones and a lot of slime, and only an upper body, slowly crawled out from under the floor.

Blood began to seep down the walls and floor of the house.

It reached the bedroom door by supporting itself with its hands, its arms seemingly shapeless as it squeezed through the crack in the door and silently turned the knob to open it.

One by one, the lights in the apartment hallway went out, and it started "snowing" outside the window.

Chapter 493 The Mourning Box

In a dream world shrouded in gray fog, Danny escapes with the help of five friends, a feat he has accomplished many times before.

He has been having nightmares ever since he escaped from that hotel nine months ago.

The evil spirits from those hotels would appear in his dreams from time to time, and even in the real world.

But this time is different!

In the past, the evil spirits could only launch sneak attacks when Danny was in a low mood, but with the help of his five friends, he was always able to escape successfully. Sometimes he could even launch some rather ineffective counterattacks.

But this time it's completely different; that blood-covered man without skin is too strong.

All five friends who attacked together were beaten so badly they were practically crawling on their stomachs, and their figures even faded into the distance.

At that moment, Danny's father appeared directly in front of them. The man carrying an axe, trying to kill his wife and children.

He was no longer Danny's father, but had succumbed to the evil spirits of the hotel.

Now, with his deceased father in front of him and a bloodied man behind him, Danny seems to be in a desperate situation.

Five figures—four men and one woman—protected Danny in the center. Their faces were obscured, but they were Danny's most reliable friends, semi-independent spirits constructed by Danny's subconscious self-protection, existing only within Danny's mind.

However, they can no longer protect Danny; the enemy is too powerful.

But the blood-soaked man and the deceased father seemed to look past Danny and into the other man.

A turtle and a mung bean have hit it off!

Sure enough, taking down this guy is more important than the child. The brat can't get much further.

So, the quick-thinking Tony, the leader, cautiously led the group to retreat in this direction. Sure enough, both sides were focused on each other and ignored them.

Then, the two sides started fighting!

Danny's deceased father was named Jack, and he truly lived up to his reputation as the most powerful evil spirit in the hotel, a double-flowered red stick. Wielding a fire axe, he was as fierce as the wind.

Then a flurry of axe flashed, and the sounds of bones shattering and muscles tearing were deafening.

The blood-soaked man was actually hacked to pieces by Evil Spirit Jack, and was completely dismembered!

However, the blood-soaked man let out a comfortable groan.

"What a pleasurable pain!"