Dream Within a Dream?

Mo Chen's heart suddenly trembled, and the motion of rising to his feet hung in midair.

He lowered his head and looked at the phone screen again.

It turned out to be a text message from 10086.

"Damn it! It's just a text message—why do I have this heart-pounding feeling of dread?"

He grumbled speechlessly, picked up his phone and keys, shut down the computer, and prepared to go out for breakfast.

Mo Chen pushed open his door. The morning sunlight fell across his face, warm and comforting, yet it could not dispel the inexplicable chill in his heart.

He walked down familiar streets, surrounded by passing pedestrians, car horns, vendors' cries, and the fragrance drifting from breakfast shops... Everything felt so real.

Yet the more real it felt, the more something seemed wrong.

"Chaos... the system... the bronze gate..."

He murmured under his breath, his brows tightly furrowed.

Suddenly, he stopped.

A news report was playing on the electronic billboard at the street corner:

[Breaking news: A sudden anomaly has occurred on the servers of the globally renowned game Chaos. Numerous players have reported unknown bugs appearing in the game, and some have even claimed to have seen things within the game that "do not belong to its setting"...]

Mo Chen's pupils contracted sharply.

His heart began to pound violently as an indescribable terror swept through his body.

"No... this isn't right..."

He spun around and ran frantically back to his apartment.

When he pushed open the door, the computer screen was black, but the tower was still running. The colorful fan lights inside the case hummed softly, shining in seven-colored brilliance.

But he clearly remembered shutting it down...

His trembling hand reached out and pressed the Enter key.

The screen lit up, and the login interface for Chaos