It's Heating Up

Infant Road mixed in realistic folklore horror elements, featuring high-energy scares in rapid succession. The feeling of being pursued filled countless veterans with a deep sense of suffocation; the visuals remained dim and gloomy, and the sound effects made one's scalp tingle. More importantly, until now, none of the top bigwigs who played games in the horror section had successfully cleared it.

The original body had followed the trend and downloaded it, but after playing for a few minutes, he got scared and closed it. He hadn't deleted it, though, which gave Si You his chance.

[??? I just came to watch the gossip, so why do I still have to experience the terror of Infant Road?!]

[What is there to be scared of! If this dumbass can last half a minute, I'll lose! He isn't even panicking, so there's even less possibility of me panicking!]

[Bro upstairs, I'm with you!]

Over on this side, Si You was drawn in by the eerie music and quickly got into the zone.

He genuinely liked horror games, having bought and played through all of them on Steam. To him, this was the ultimate stress-relieving artifact.

The stream's visuals correspondingly turned pitch black, and Si You turned on his flashlight following the three-minute beginner's guide.

His character woke up in a potter's field. Thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, threatening rain. Behind him stood an ancient residence, with large red lanterns hanging from all four corners of the eaves. They swayed left and right in the violent wind, like a female ghost with scarlet lips and teeth hiding in the night, quietly watching you.

[Opening thunderclap! Infant Road's spawn points are randomly refreshed. This is the most terrifying kind!]

Si You glanced at this bullet comment, thinking to himself that it was heating up.

The anti-fans in the livestream with weak hearts were already starting to sweat in their palms, yet they still put on a calm front. Who didn't know that during a variety show appearance previously, even flying bugs had sent Si You screaming at the top of his lungs?

Once he panicked, naturally he would close the game.

Yet Si You manipulated his character, turning on the low-beam flashlight, and walked toward the graveyard.

Bullet comments:[???]

After walking for a bit, the music abruptly turned aggressive!

"There's a ghost." Si You's voice was deep. Sure enough, as the flashlight swept across, the tombstones of several graves tilted and fell to the ground, followed by rotting flesh attached to white bones breaking out of the soil!

Infant Road lived up to its name as the hottest horror game right now. The graphics were made very realistically, and the scene of evil ghosts crawling out was thrilling to the extreme. But not only did Si You not scream, he instead stood his ground and watched for a few seconds.

Three evil ghosts lunged forward simultaneously with blue faces and fangs bared, and the bullet comments jumped wildly. Some people in front of their computers or phones couldn't help screaming out loud.

Outrageous!

Just when everyone thought Si You was about to bite the dust, who would have thought this person suddenly ran toward the right side of the graveyard, dodging the evil ghost right in front of him with snake-like footwork while narrating: "Observe closely; just now when the ghosts were unearthed, a flash of light flickered past. Based on my experience, it must be a quest item. The scarier the spawn point, the more violent the clearance method. Brothers, we're taking off!"

The moment his voice fell, he pressed the D key and ran backward while dodging. The evil ghosts were shaken off by a distance, but they still pursued him relentlessly with ferocious expressions. Then Si You executed a precise turn and jump. Because the sprint charge bar was already full, this takeoff was extremely successful, clearing the top of a deep pit grave directly, while the evil ghosts behind him fell right into the pit.

Si You consumed the only bottle of complimentary stamina medicine, returned to the spot where the first batch of evil ghosts was born, and sure enough, discovered a spiritual talisman among them. Finally, rushing back before the other ghosts woke up, he sprinted back to the ancient residence in one breath.

The entire operation was smooth as flowing water.

It defied logic if this guy didn't die eight hundred or a thousand times.

"I haven't played it, really." Si You took a break to answer the bullet comments. "Didn't you see my quest progress bar is still new? It's talent. You guys can't learn this."

This was the truth. Similar games all shared interconnected elements; he had played too many, plus his brain worked fast.

Bullet comments:[6]

Having experienced such an ordeal, Si You caught sight of the livestream's viewer count dropping sharply by twenty or thirty thousand, and he let out a soft hum: "Do you still remember what I said just now? Whoever runs is a coward."

Only a coward wouldn't run! Some anti-fans clutched their chests and thought.

Si You continued playing the game earnestly. There were more decryption elements in the ancient residence, and moreover, there was only a single save point. Several times, Si You got pounced on the face by the female ghost and failed to reach it in time before dying, forcing him to start over from the last saved location.

The music was thrilling, and high-energy moments came one after another. Si You gave a light click of his tongue, deeply feeling that this game was interesting.

The anti-fans and rival fans were dumbfounded, seeing that not only was this person not deterred, but he actually grew more courageous the more he was thwarted.

He died eighteen times on the path leading to the second-floor utility room! A full eighteen times! And after regrouping, he still had to run back up.

[Bro, if it's not working, why don't you just forget it? My heart can't take this.]

[It's over. Tonight whenever I lift up my quilt, it's going to be this female ghost's face.]

"This run is solid." Si You was fully focused.

Solid in a dream, everyone thought. Yet they never expected that next, Si You manipulated his character with lips moving slightly, seemingly counting down something silently. He walked a few steps and paused, walked a few steps and paused. After the female ghost came out, he quickly ran to a corner, and once his stamina recovered slightly, he headed to another turning point, managing to perfectly bypass the female ghost every single time.

The bullet comments instantly became fierce.

[He figured out the female ghost's attack frequency!]

Si You made a bold declaration: "Unless your luck is terrible, there is no game that cannot be cleared!"

The young man in the camera frame wore a cold and stern expression, carrying the unbridled arrogance unique to his age. Many people couldn't help taking screenshots. So damn cool!

[I'm going to find The Plane Never Stops Flying!]

This bullet comment was quite nonsensical, and no one cared.

However, five minutes later, the viewer count in Si You's livestream surged by one hundred thousand!

Si You had just successfully entered the utility room, temporarily letting out a breath, and then noticed the change in the livestream's viewer count.

"It shouldn't be that dramatic, my friends. Did you guys shout for the anti-fan army to come again?"

[Don't gild the lily. If you can even have this many anti-fans, it counts as being infamous. The Plane has arrived.]

Si You was stunned. What was The Plane?

Following that, a dazzling interstellar special effect exploded across the screen, accompanied by a passing starlit spaceship.

Platform gift, five thousand each.

Holy crap!

Si You reacted after the fact and recited the thank-you speech: "Many thanks to boss 'The Plane Never Stops Flying' for sending a starlit spaceship. Thank you, boss, thank you very much!"

The special effects attached to The Plane's typing were much prettier. [Can you make it convenient to assign me as a room moderator? I'm easy to talk to.]

Si You didn't hesitate. With The Plane arriving and driving this many people here, he definitely had to be a big streamer.

Si You didn't guess wrong. The Plane was a heavy hitter in the horror section, sporting stubble, leaning toward an uncle-type aesthetic, and very handsome. He had a super abundance of female fans, and coupled with the fact that he genuinely played well, he had quite a few technical fans as well.

Nowadays, many people were too timid to play by themselves, so they loved watching big shots play for the thrill.

The Plane was among the first batch to play Infant Road. His spawn point was relatively simple, but after groping his way to the ancient residence, he was tortured back and forth by the female ghost so terribly that he had never successfully entered the utility room once.

Just now, a friendly viewer came into his livestream and said a streamer was about to succeed, but The Plane didn't believe it. The other person then sent the livestream link. Anyway, since he had already been tortured numb, The Plane casually clicked in, only to happen to witness Si You's thrilling operation of silently counting numbers to bypass the female ghost.

Si You's face was also in the bottom right corner. Watching him play games was pleasing to the eye, and his looks were equally pleasing to the eye. He was bound to rise in prominence in the future, The Plane thought.