Chaos Gradually Begins

The Tian Kong is azure blue, and there are Paper Crane outside the window.

Early morning.

After the hour hand pointed to eight o'clock, the alarm clock faithfully rang.

After ringing persistently and steadily for about a minute, a slightly pale hand emerged from under the covers, grabbed the alarm clock, and threw it to the ground.

With a muffled thud, the alarm clock shattered into pieces.

Seeing that the source of the noise had been completely eliminated, the arm withdrew its hand with satisfaction, and the bed returned to its original silence.

One hour later.

"Ha... I feel like I've been getting less and less energetic these past few days... I've been Nightmare all night..."

Yawning, the Young Girl sat up from the bed, looking quite tired.

She didn't know what was wrong with her, but in the past few days she had become increasingly tired, with aches and pains in her back and waist, and Nightmare at night... even though she had been resting for a long time.

"Forget it, I should still go to the hospital tomorrow. I have a feeling that if this keeps up, I'm going to suddenly die..."

With a slight sigh, Yan Yue turned around to get out of bed to wash up when she caught sight of the shattered alarm clock on the floor, and she was momentarily stunned.

"... Why did the alarm clock get smashed again?"

Because she kept having terrifying Nightmare all night and couldn't wake up no matter what she did, she set an alarm to wake herself up.

But this is already the fifth alarm clock to be broken.

"Stop kidding, it's 2021 already, feudal superstitions are unacceptable... It's an old occupational hazard."

Looking at the increasingly haggard Young Girl in the mirror, Yan Yue slapped her cheeks hard.

"I'll take a shower later, and then tomorrow... no, I'll go to the hospital this afternoon. It's probably just a cold or the flu or something..."

Muttering to herself, Yan Yue turned around.

--In the reflection in the mirror, a long- Red-clothed Figure was crouching on her shoulder, a pale arm hanging down naturally.

"He said he was going to pick up takeout, but it's taken him this long. The streamer probably stood him up... Is this thing really that hard to pick up?"

Looking at the non-static image appearing on the computer screen in front of her, Yan Yue pouted somewhat unhappily.

--She didn't know if it was just psychological, but after taking a shower, she felt much more relaxed, at least she no longer felt the previous frustration and fatigue.

She minimized the window in the upper right corner and opened a Game Platform, intending to find some casual Game to play. However, before she could search for long, a Mini-game appeared in front of her.

The Game is quite simple: Player control Specter to Attachment to Resident and then play various pranks on that Resident.

The Resident have their own set of behavioral logic and methods, Player cannot directly interfere with; they can only interfere indirectly.

However, the more Yan Yue played the Game, the stronger the sense of déjà vu became... especially when the Specter she controlled threw the alarm clock on the ground and smashed it to prevent the Resident from waking up early.

"Hahaha... the Big Data Era is truly terrifying..."

After letting out a couple of dry laughs, Yan Yue moved the mouse to the upper right corner, intending to close the Game.

To her surprise, the computer seemed to be infected with some kind of virus, and the mouse became completely out of her control, instead sliding across the screen on its own.

--In the end, the Game screen froze on a scene where the Resident was sitting in front of the computer and had opened a Game.

Having gained enough Strength from the previous series of pranks, the Specter now perched on the Resident's shoulder, cradling the Resident's chin in its hands, gently lowering its head little by little from above...

"..."

As more and more strands of her long hair fell down in front of her, obscuring the computer screen, Yan Yue was completely stunned.

Just then, a melodious tune drifted over from somewhere...

"Clang!!"

The sudden sound of a window shattering next door startled the man who was nervously watching Horror Movie. Without thinking, he immediately threw his phone away.

With a soft click, the screen went black.

As the man angrily opened the door to investigate, he saw a rather young-looking man with no energy running past his door and sliding down the stair railing at the bottom of the stairs.

... Catching someone in the act?

Almost subconsciously, the man had this thought flash through his mind.

However, the very next second after this thought crossed his mind, a Monster with its body twisted abnormally, crawling on all fours with a distorted and broken face, quickly crawled past his door.

"!!!"

Before the man could react to what was happening before him, the Monster retreated even faster, its shattered and hideous face locking onto him.

With a piercing screams, the Monster squeezed into the room, and the door was firmly shut.

Ten seconds later, two identical Monster crawled out of the room one after the other and continued their pursuit of their original target.

And so, under this virus-like infection, just three minutes later, Liu Shanchun tragically discovered that the number of Monster chasing him had increased to 12.

Fortunately, it was nighttime, and his place was somewhat remote with few people around. Otherwise, the number of Monster chasing him would have been far more than just 12.

At the same time, for some unknown reason, Liu Shanchun discovered that his speed far exceeded that of ordinary people.

In his memory, he was a moderately sedentary guy who rarely went out and almost never exercised, but the speed he was displaying now, he estimated, had even broken a world record...

Of course, what astonished him was not only the unscientific speed displayed by Zihe-Tu-Shu, but also his agility and Strength, which far exceeded those of ordinary people.

Previously, he would never have dared to even think about such difficult moves, but now he can do them quite easily and with remarkable ease.

Is this the immense potential that humanity unleashes when faced with Life and Death situation?

While consciously leading the Monster chasing him to sparsely populated areas, Liu Shanchun still had the mind to ponder this question.

"So what exactly are these damn things...!?"