As Qin Manjiang lightly touched the screen, the grinning ghost face rippled and twisted like water before disappearing, slowly dissolving into the black screen.
In its place appeared a brief prompt in blood-red text:
[Code name:]
Code name?
After a moment's thought, he understood its purpose.
The game seemed unwilling to let reality and the ghost stories become too closely connected.
The so-called code name probably meant a name used exclusively in another setting.
In other words, it wanted him to choose another name.
Crash-
A few chunks of rubble suddenly fell from overhead, and the pattering night rain fell into the cinema through the newly exposed gap.
Qin Manjiang tilted his head back, looking through the hole at the pitch-black night sky.
Tonight, wind and rain raged together, and everything looming above and around him resembled a bottomless abyss.
After a little thought, he reached out a finger and wrote just one word in the code name field-
Abyss.
[Code name: Abyss.]
The word "Abyss" seemed to sink into water, swiftly swallowed by the black screen.
Then lines of red text rapidly appeared:
``` [Personal mode activated. (Clear it to unlock multiplayer mode.)]
[Ghost story: Threshold Ghost Tales]
[Located at 36 South Sky Road, Fu City, Threshold Cinema was built fifteen years ago.]
[The cinema features lavish furnishings, complex electrical wiring, and numerous combustible and flammable materials. Should a fire occur, the flames could spread and grow with extreme ease.]
[Ever since a fire ten years ago, strange incidents have frequently occurred at Threshold Cinema.]
[Some people have seen other people in the cinema restroom mirrors. Others have seen unidentified figures appear in seats that should have been empty during screenings.]
[As rumors ran rampant, attendance plummeted, until recently, when the combination of the latest