A Way Out! The Only Way!

Just as she was getting excited, someone at the very front collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Yin Ge looked toward the sound.

It was the groom!

The groom had fallen onto the stairs, his eyes wide, chest heaving as he gasped for breath. He looked terrified.

Yin Ge looked around and found that, besides the groom, there were seven people in the stairwell!

They were Bride's father, Bride's mother, Bride's younger brother, the groom, the best man, the groom's younger sister, and Yin Ge herself—the bridesmaid.

Everyone else had vanished.

What about Bride?

Thinking of this, Yin Ge immediately took a step back and stared intently beside the groom.

After all, she had just watched the groom pull Bride outside. Although there had only been a mass of empty air there, it was still enough to send chills down her spine.

The others seemed to realize something as well. Mimicking Yin Ge, they took a large step back and stared at the groom.

In an instant, the groom lying on the ground had been separated from everyone else by some distance.

Clearly, the others were afraid of the groom too—or rather, afraid of the invisible Bride beside him.

But weren't these people all Bride's family and friends?

Why were they so afraid of Bride too?

Yin Ge found it strange. Then, in an instant, a guess surfaced in her mind.

Could it be...

Like her, the others had merely entered the bodies of people close to Bride, and did not actually know her?

The moment this thought appeared in her mind, the groom seemed to realize something too. He suddenly began swatting violently at his side. "What the hell is this? Get the fuck away from me!"

"How the hell did I run into something like this just from staying home and watching porn?"

"Help! Help!"

He begged the others for help, but they all took another step back, not daring to approach him.

At the same time, Bride's younger brother fell onto the ground in fright.

He bit his lip tightly and could not stop himself from crying. "So scary... It's really so scary."

"What kind of place is this? I want to go home, I want to go home! This is illegal detention!"

He looked only seven or eight years old, an age when children still depended on their parents.

Yet his mother—Bride's mother—was crouched nearby, sobbing, while Bride's father leaned against the wall with terrified eyes. The family of three did not look close at all.

This scene confirmed Yin Ge's suspicions.

Like her, the others had merely entered the bodies of people close to Bride. They did not actually know one another.

Wailing, cries for help, and ragged gasps intertwined.

It should have been a bizarre scene, yet these sounds felt far more familiar than the deafening drums and gongs from before.

Because Yin Ge had already keenly determined from their strange actions and words that they had gone through the same thing she had.

Just as the situation grew increasingly out of control, the best man suddenly spoke, his voice thick with terror. "Son of Heaven Game... I really entered the Son of Heaven Game!"

"Son of Heaven Game?"

Yin Ge's attention shifted. She muttered the best man's words, and videos she had once watched about the Son of Heaven Game immediately surfaced in her mind.

The best man clearly knew something!

Catching that detail, Yin Ge stared at him and asked, "What Son of Heaven Game?"

The others were drawn in by his words as well. "A game? What game?"

The best man's lips trembled. "You people seriously don't know about the Son of Heaven Game? The Son of Heaven Game is a real-life game!"

Yin Ge frowned. "You mean everything we're experiencing right now is a game?"

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone raised their heads and stared fixedly at the best man.

The groom scrambled up from the ground, grabbed the best man by the collar, and snarled, "A game? What the fuck do you mean? I never played any game!"

"The Son of Heaven Game is a real-life game. You can't enter it voluntarily; you can only be dragged into it." The best man showed no anger, his eyes full of fear.

"It's over... It's over... We're all done for. We're all going to die..."

Hearing that, the groom became even more frightened. "What the fuck do you mean? If it's a game, then that dead woman was fake, right?"

"No!"

The best man gripped his hair with both hands and shook his head desperately. "It's real, all of this is real! I've read so many science fiction novels. This is alien technology—they want to kill all of us!"

At those words, the groom staggered and fell to the ground again. His body trembled, and a puddle of liquid spread beneath him. A foul stench instantly filled the stairwell.

The Bride's mother covered her nose and moved farther away in disgust.

Seeing her reaction, the groom lost face and silently gritted his teeth.

The Bride's mother did not notice. Her whole body trembled, and her lips quivered. "Are there really aliens?"

No one answered her.

The child's crying grew even louder.

Yin Ge, however, had no time to be afraid. Warily, she asked, "How did you know we entered the Son of Heaven Game?"

The best man spoke with a tremble in his voice. "I've gathered a lot of information recently. Based on the current situation, we really have entered the Son of Heaven Game..."

"Once you enter the Son of Heaven Game, there's no way to survive!!"

"Some say it's a spiritual energy revival, some say it's a horror revival, and others say it's future technology, alien technology, or ancient technology. But no matter what explanation it is, entering means certain death!"

The moment he said that, everyone's expressions changed.

Yin Ge's heart trembled too, but she immediately noticed something wrong. "No. If there were no survivors, how did the name Son of Heaven Game get spread around? I've seen videos about it too!"

Thanks to her taste for strange things, Yin Ge had watched quite a few short videos, and the Son of Heaven Game had been among them. She simply had not looked into those videos too deeply at the time.

When Yin Ge asked that question, everyone calmed down slightly.

"Right! How could it be certain death? There has to be a way out!"

"Mommy, I want Mommy! Let me out, sob..."

"Damn it! Aren't the police doing anything about this? I'm a taxpayer—I'm filing a complaint!"

Everyone began speaking at once, but Yin Ge did not want to waste time.

"How do we get out?" Yin Ge asked the best man. "What do you know? Tell us, now!"

At those words, hope ignited in everyone's eyes, and they looked at the best man again.

But the best man seemed to think of something. Terror filled his handsome face. "It's impossible... We can't get out... We're all going to die, we're all going to die..."

Seeing this, Yin Ge grew anxious. She stepped forward and slapped the best man across the face.

Slap!

The best man was stunned. The others froze as well and looked over.

Yin Ge said, "Then talk! How the hell are we supposed to get out? Stop rambling!"

The best man stammered, "I-I watched so many videos... It seems like only one person survived."

"He seemed to enter the body of a murderer, then went through everything the murderer had experienced, and somehow survived in the end..."

"But afterward, he was so terrified and guilty that he committed suicide not long after uploading the video."

Only one person had survived?

And that person had killed himself in the end?

Everyone present widened their eyes, terror filling them.

Yin Ge had lived for twenty years, and this was the first time she had encountered something like this. It was impossible for her not to panic.

But she was a very rational person. She knew panic was useless right now.

She only wanted to survive.

Thinking of that, Yin Ge bit her lip tightly. "Since there was a survivor, that means we can survive too! Tell us quickly—how did that person survive?"

The best man's voice trembled, but he finally spoke. "The survivor entered the Son of Heaven Game and became a murderer."

"The murderer had a wife. He chopped her into pieces and fed her to pigs, but after the survivor entered the murderer's body, he concealed it and did not let anyone find out."

"In the end, the other six people traveling with the survivor failed to identify the murderer, so the wife, who had already been chopped into pieces, came back to life and killed all of them!"

Upon hearing that, Yin Ge immediately summarized it in her own words.

The survivor and the other six had entered the Son of Heaven Game and become people around that dismembered "wife," just as they had now become people around the Bride.

And that "wife," like the Bride, wanted to find the Killer who had killed her.

What was the result? The survivor concealed his identity as the Killer and lived until the end.

In other words...

"Do you remember what that Bride said just now?"

As soon as she asked, she stared closely at every face.

Hearing her, the others began trying to remember.

Before long, the groom spoke in frustration. "That Bride was covered in blood and mutilated beyond recognition. I had close contact with her—I was too busy being scared to remember what she said!"

"I-I don't remember either." The child sniffled. "I still have school tomorrow. I need to get a little red flower..."

The others shook their heads as well.

"I remember." The best man spoke. "She said, 'Find him. Kill him!'"

Those words matched Yin Ge's memory exactly.

At this point, Yin Ge finally confirmed that they had indeed entered the Son of Heaven Game and were going through the same thing as that group of survivors.

After entering the game, that survivor had become the murderer and learned everything the murderer had done over those days.

And now, she had entered the bridesmaid's body and knew everything the bridesmaid had done that day.

In other words, they had to help the Bride find the person who had killed her.

If they found that person, they could survive.

If they failed to find that person, then the Killer would survive, and everyone else would die!