An Anomaly's Suicide

Common people, Players.

Common people had almost no ability to protect themselves before Anomalies. Although Players possessed some means of self-preservation, if they failed while confronting an Anomaly, their fate would be even more miserable than that of common people.

—Like Ghouls.

When Players became Ghouls, common people were reduced to nothing but frenzied, absurd obsessions, becoming mere decorations within the Game.

Of the more than fifty Players participating in this Game, at least twenty had already reached zero HP and suffered Game Over. In this Game, Game Over did not mean death, but becoming Ghouls.

Once you became a Ghoul, everything about you would be controlled: your soul, will, thoughts, body... You would have no dignity whatsoever. You would become the lowliest kind of existence.

So, after learning some information about Ghouls from Bug, Bai Zhi had developed a certain thought.

—If he suffered Game Over, was it possible that he would become a Ghoul?

Whether they were those common people whose remaining obsessions were imprisoned within the Game, unable to find release and turned into those absurd Strategy Tiles, or Bug and Tiger, who had become Ghouls, they had almost no future to speak of.

He could help those obsessions find release, but how many could he help? Not to mention those Ghouls.

He alone could not fight an Anomaly of this scale, nor did he know how to fight it. But if this Anomaly wanted to control him on the level of his soul and will... honestly, Bai Zhi was quite curious about what would happen.

If this Anomaly directly sent a hundred or a thousand unkillable Ghouls after him, he would undoubtedly be killed. That was obvious.

But if it wanted to turn him into a Ghoul...

This Anomaly should not be a match for a