My Deceased Childhood Friend is the Horror Game Boss 2 - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

[Welcome, player, to the Infinite Game.

[Instance “Blood Auction House” loading…

[Difficulty rating: S-rank.

[Main mission: Earn 50 million chips.

[Hidden mission: Not yet refreshed.

[Three, two, one-

[Game start!]

This was an exceptionally luxurious private club.

Brilliant crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling. The floors were paved with magnificent marble, and the walls were decorated with priceless works of art.

Lavish sofas and armchairs were arranged with practiced elegance. Even the sconces mounted high on the walls were made of pure gold.

Extravagance and excess, pushed to the limits of imagination.

Seven players stood in the main hall. One of them spoke up.

“None of us are newbies. Let’s introduce ourselves.”

The tall male player’s lips curved faintly, not quite a smile. “Ou Feiluan.”

The player beside him sucked in a sharp breath.

“Ou Feiluan, the player ranked fifth on the combat power leaderboard?!

“What kind of difficulty is this instance if it matched us with a player that high-level?!”

The players reported their names one after another. Every single one of them was a veteran player who had cleared multiple instances.

Except me.

“My name is Song Zhi.”

A rookie who had just cleared one instance, with no reputation to speak of.

What I didn’t know was that somewhere none of the players could see, the livestream chat was going completely wild.

[The second I saw Gardenia Sister enter another instance, I slammed that stream open!]

[Song Zhi? Who’s that? Other than being pretty, what’s so special about her? Why is she this popular?]

[Bro, you don’t know the half of it. Song Zhi is the rookie who just cleared Death Middle School.]

[Holy shit! That instance no one has ever come out of alive, the one with a 100% death rate??]

[I remember the Final Boss in Death Middle School was terrifying, basically the ceiling of combat power in the Infinite Game. What kind of person is Song Zhi, to clear the instance right under his nose???]

[That’s what you don’t know. Gardenia Sister is Boss’s wife. How could he possibly let her get hurt?]

[What??!! Boss has a wife now???]

Chapter 2

In the main hall, Ou Feiluan looked me up and down, his gaze like the flicking tongue of a venomous snake, sending a chill down my spine.

“You’re the one who killed Zhu Jiao?”

My heart tightened. Every muscle in my body tensed, but my voice stayed steady.

“She tried to kill me and failed.

“So she died.”

Zhu Jiao, known as the “Rookie Killer.”

In the previous instance, she had tried to throw me to the monsters to be tortured to death, only for me to turn the tables and kill her instead.

A black whip wreathed in eerie ghostly energy suddenly appeared in Ou Feiluan’s hand. Its length was covered in barbs, and he struck it against the floor again and again, the malice in his eyes almost tangible.

“Zhu Jiao was my favorite lover.

“Even when you beat a dog, you look at its owner first. Killing Zhu Jiao means you look down on me.”

He was like a beast certain of its victory, toying carelessly with its prey before the kill.

“You’re just a rookie player. How capable could you possibly be?

“Tell me, should I peel the skin off your body inch by inch while you’re fully conscious, or should I carve all the flesh from your bones first, then break every bone in your body?

“Or maybe…”

Ou Feiluan’s nauseating gaze slid over me, his voice sticky and vile.

“Become my lover. Serve me nice and comfortably, and I won’t pursue the matter of you killing Zhu Jiao.”

In the livestream, the number of comments surged.

[I’ve heard of Ou Feiluan. His methods are vicious. He specifically targets weak, pretty female players. The number of women he’s tortured into insanity is definitely in the double digits.]

[It’s over. Is this pretty girl going to fall into his hands too?!]

[She’s just a rookie who cleared one instance! How is she supposed to be a match for an old fox like Ou Feiluan?]

[Wait! I just remembered, isn’t the Final Boss of Blood Auction House also Xie Qingye?!]

[Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, it really is!!]

[Boss protects Gardenia Sister like she’s the apple of his eye. This greasy guy actually dares to lay a hand on her? Now this is going to be fun!!]

Inside the resplendent hall, the tension was a hair’s breadth from exploding.

I clenched my fingers tightly. My nails dug into my palms, leaving crescent-shaped marks as my heart pounded wildly.

One of us was an unknown rookie player. The other was a top-tier player ranked fifth on the combat power leaderboard.

What did I have that could possibly stand against him?

Right. The item I obtained after clearing Death Middle School!

[Item name: Answer Sheet

[Item rank: S-rank

[Item description: This item is divided into multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions. Each may be used once. After use, it can alter the target’s behavior according to the question description.

[Uses: 0/3]

It was actually a causality-type item.

But it could only be used three times.

I tightened my grip on the Answer Sheet. One second before it activated, the sound of footsteps interrupted me.

A manager in a well-fitted suit and white gloves walked over, frowning as he barked at us.

“You’re the newly arrived auctioneers? What are you standing around here for?”

The manager opened a narrow dark-red door and snapped impatiently,

“Hurry up and get in! There’s a lot of work today.”