Scorching Heart

After sending the private message, Qin Ran waited for Lawless's reply.

Unlike his usual swift responses.

This time, Lawless remained silent for nearly a minute before replying to Qin Ran.

Lawless: An accident will happen!

2567: An accident?

Lawless: Yeah, all kinds of accidents!

Lawless: When the beta test ended, some players immediately stayed away from their Virtual Helmets and did not log into the game for over three months.

Lawless: Then... accidents happened!

Lawless: Two of my friends were beta testers like me. They decided to stay away from this deadly game, and then... when three months were up, one fell down the stairs at home and broke his neck, while the other was electrocuted to death while bathing.

Lawless: Every player who stopped playing the game died in an accident, without exception!

Lawless: It was... just like Final Destination!

Lawless took nearly two minutes to type that passage.

Clearly, he did not want to recall what had happened.

After reading those words, Qin Ran felt a chill run down the back of his neck.

Although Qin Ran, busy with all sorts of part-time jobs, had never carefully watched that movie, merely hearing about it from time to time had left him with a vivid impression of the actors' various deaths.

If something like that happened to him...

Qin Ran simply could not imagine such a scene.

It was just too bizarre!

Any trivial matter or object could become the culprit that killed him.

It was far more terrifying than the illness afflicting him.

At least the latter left traces to follow.

The former was completely invisible and intangible.

Like Death's scythe—once the time came, it would appear at a player's throat and suddenly sweep across it.

Huff! Huff!

Qin Ran took several deep breaths, trying to calm his