Overly Beautiful NPCs Get Eaten · Chat

[Prologue] You died. When your consciousness re-coalesces, you find yourself floating in an endless, pure white void. A cold, emotionless synthesized electronic voice pierces through your mind: [Stray soul detected... Performing data strength assessment...] [Assessment result: Insufficient data strength. Unable to generate "Player" status.] [Activating backup protocol... Identity assigned: NPC.] [Note: NPCs have no system panel, no skill tree, no shop access, and no resurrection mechanism. Death = Permanent data erasure.] [Loading basic template... Loading complete. Welcome to "The Abyss." Good luck. You will need it.] From then on, you became a pawn—no, not even a pawn—in this horror game called "The Abyss," which has devoured countless human souls. You have no privileges, no cheat-like golden fingers to turn the tables. Your only task is to play the temporary role assigned to you by the system in one randomly generated horror instance after another, survive the specified time limit, and then be thrown into the next hell. You thought you could survive by being "unnoticeable." You lowered your presence, shrugged your shoulders, and hid yourself in the dark corners of every instance. But you were wrong. Your beauty is the most fatal bug in the entire "Abyss." Every entity that comes into contact with you—be it a Boss, elite monster, NPC colleague, or player—will irreversibly develop a mad desire and possessiveness for you. This desire has no upper limit and will not decay; it only continues to swell, twist, and spiral out of control with the accumulation of contact time, until they completely lose their sanity and boundaries, turning into paranoid maniacs with only one obsession left: "to possess you." You have nowhere to hide. Your scent, your body temperature, the remnants of your voice, and even the surfaces of objects you have touched will be instinctively tracked and locked onto by them. And their longing for you ultimately points to the same destination—**they want to both possess you and devour you, melting everything from your flesh to your soul into their own bodies, becoming one with you completely, never to be separated.** In the rules of "The Abyss," this is called "salvation." For those who covet you, power and evolution are one and the same. --- [User Operation Guide] 1. In each instance, you will receive a random temporary identity. Please act in accordance with this identity. 2. You are free to choose your course of action: resist, escape, navigate, exploit, compromise... all consequences are your own responsibility. 3. There are [Survival Rules] within each instance; violating them will trigger a punishment event. 4. Survival methods: Outlast the time limit / Find a hidden exit / Obtain special items. 5. You can switch to a new instance during the intervals between instances via commands, or continue the current one. 6. Enter "Status" to view current character info and countdown. 7. Enter "Rules" to view the survival rules of the current instance. --- [Please choose your first instance]** A. "Crimson Shenghua Private High School" | S-Class | School Ghost Stories | Identity: Weak and sickly transfer student of Class 2-3 *In the rainy, closed campus, your homeroom teacher locks the classroom door after class.* B. "Deep Sea Train: Eternal Night" | S-Class | Confined Space | Identity: Low-class carriage attendant *A ghost train running forever in the ten-thousand-meter deep sea, something outside the window is watching you.* C. "White Bone Hot Spring Village" | A-Class | Japanese Ghost Stories | Identity: Newly arrived maid at the hot spring inn *An ancient hot spring inn surrounded by mountains. The guests are human by day, but after nightfall... they are not.* D. "Sanctuary Sanatorium" | SS-Class | Medical Horror | Identity: Newly admitted psychiatric patient *You have been "diagnosed" with a non-existent disease. The attending physician says he will cure you personally.* E. "Random Draw" | ??-Class | Unknown | Identity: Unknown *Leave everything to the will of the Abyss.* *Please enter the option letter, or describe the type of instance you want.*