Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

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Author: Rampaging Wine Bottle

Summary:

Welcome to the hell game.

[Enter the dungeon: Bloody Restaurant]

[The position you are applying for is: Delivery man]

[Your clients include: a fat otaku who stinks of corpses, a maid who explodes at the slightest disagreement...]

[Your colleagues include: a female boss who is too pretty to be human, a horse that is literally a beast of burden, a man-eating tree that speaks French swear words...]

Faced with these talented people, Liu Zheng, who wanted to be a good person, had no choice but to stop being a good person.

Chapter 1 Bloody Restaurant

"Character card generation in progress."

ID: Liu Zheng (can be edited)

Level: lv1

"Strength: 14"

"Constitution: 12?"

"Spirit: 11"

"Perception: 10"

Looking at the character panel in front of him, Liu Zheng was a little confused.

He only filled out a questionnaire, and he was selected for some hellish game.

Are these deities now recruiting people so casually?

Even people who promote Amway will inquire about a family's background.

"The instance will open in one hour. Please be prepared."

The mechanical voice sounded again, and a countdown timer appeared on the panel.

"Isn't it inhumane to make a person with ALS go into a dungeon?"

Liu Zheng was speechless.

He only has a few months left to live, and this trip was to choose a burial plot for himself.

He had thought through all his requirements.

It must be a large apartment, facing south, and ideally, the neighbor should be a 19-year-old high school girl.

"Players have signed a betting agreement and must abide by the game rules."

The system said indifferently.

"What kind of performance-based agreement?"

Liu Zheng looked at the questionnaire and was shocked to find that it had been completely changed.

Name: Blockade Agreement

Type: Item

"quality:???"

"Effect: The user's completion rewards will be automatically replaced with rewards related to their wish until the wish is fulfilled. The user will be forcibly converted into a player, and their completion rating must not be lower than A before the wish is fulfilled, otherwise they will be eliminated."

"Note: No child cries every day, and no gambler loses every day."

What was his wish again?

Liu Zheng scratched his head, then remembered.

Healthy and long life.

A very impolite request for someone with a terminal illness.

"alright."

He sighed.

A short, sharp pain is worse than a long, drawn-out one; being wiped out is better than slowly waiting to die.

What can you do in an hour?

Watch a movie, have a big meal, write a will, have a party.

Liu Zheng did nothing but turn on the car stereo and play "Bohemian Rhapsody".

then.

Watching the countdown reach zero.

"Instance Name: Bloody Restaurant"

"Instance Type: Beginner Trial"

"Number of players: Single"

Mission objective: Survive for 72 hours.

As the system notification sounded, a ball of black fire instantly enveloped him and disappeared into the carriage.

When Liu Zheng woke up from his dizziness, he found himself standing at the entrance of the residential area, with a letter in his hand.

He looked at the gate of the residential area. The sign for "Jinxiu Xinyuan" was covered with mottled rust, and the stone pillars were also covered with traces of wind erosion.

He looked into the neighborhood again. The buildings were still in the same place, but when Liu Zheng tried to make a closer look, he found that everything was blurry.

At the same time, a sharp pain shot through his brain.

"Warning: Rationality is declining."

The system notification tone then sounded.

Liu Zheng quickly looked away.

Since they won't even let us look, it's even more impossible for us to enter the residential area.

So he held up the envelope in his hand.

The clues for the next step should be inside.

Liu Zheng tore open the envelope; inside was a folded A4 sheet of paper.

Upon opening it, I found it was a notification letter.

"Dear human citizen:"

"I regret to inform you that you have been out of work for two months. Please follow the instructions to the designated location for an interview. Failure to attend the interview will result in the loss of your citizenship and the commencement of processing procedures."

"Employment Security and Promotion Division of the City Hall".

Without a job, you don't even have citizenship; this hellish game is certainly keeping up with current events.

Wait, human citizens?

He suddenly discovered the key point.

Since there are human citizens, there must also be non-human citizens.

Then, when you think about the so-called "processing procedures," things immediately become terrifying.

"interesting."

Liu Zheng was somewhat excited.

This is the world he wants, an extraordinary and abnormal world.

Turn the notice over and you'll find a map.

There are five red markings in total, one of which is a five-pointed star and the other four are dots.

Without a doubt, the place marked with a five-pointed star is the so-called designated location.

The other four locations are likely to be subsequent missions or side quests.

If you're a player with a free-spirited personality, you might go check out the area marked with four dots first.

But given Liu Zheng's personality, he naturally wanted to strike at the heart of the enemy's lair.

He followed the map and didn't see any pedestrians or even small animals along the way. The surrounding buildings all had their doors and windows tightly closed.

But Liu Zheng always felt that countless hidden eyes were watching him.

In the gaps between doors and windows and in the shadows of buildings that he could not see clearly, many figures were stirring restlessly.

"We can't stay outside for long."

A dangerous intuition alerted Liu Zheng, and he quickened his pace.

After walking briskly for half an hour through the deathly quiet streets, he finally reached his destination.

It is a three-story villa with no other buildings within a hundred meters.

The feeling of being spied on disappeared quietly after Liu Zheng entered the area.

"Bloody Restaurant"

When Liu Zheng saw the huge signboard clearly, his pupils shrank.

Because the restaurant's name wasn't painted with paint, but rather composed of limbs.

The long strokes represent arms, and the short strokes represent fingers.

They were nailed to the wooden board with rusty iron nails, and they kept twisting, as if to say to him that they were welcome.

"Warning: Rationality is declining."

The system reminds again.

Liu Zheng quickly lowered his head and stopped looking at the sign.

What is rationality?

He used asking questions to distract himself.

"Hidden attribute: When rationality drops to a certain level, symptoms such as decreased intelligence, mental confusion, coma, or even temporary madness may occur."

"What if rationality drops to zero?"

"Permanent madness or..."

Liu Zheng couldn't hear what was said after that.

"Could all those lunatics in the mental hospital be gamers with zero rationality?"

He made a joke.

Unsurprisingly, the system did not respond.

Liu Zheng let out a long breath and stepped into the restaurant.

"clap clap"

A series of crisp snapping sounds rang out behind him; it was the snapping of fingers.

I don't know if they were welcoming a new colleague or celebrating something.

He walked into the restaurant, and the scene before him surprised him.

Contrary to the imagined hellish scene, the restaurant's lobby was very clean and bright, and the decoration was also grand and magnificent.