Chapter 1: Drawn Into the Survival Game

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All around her were noisy, screaming crowds. Ahead was a thick white fog so dense that she couldn’t see her hand in front of her face. Jiang Jinyue stumbled through the crowd, forcing her way against the flow, and finally reached the edge of the white circle.

But in the next second, a man in a shabby suit stepped across the white line before she could.

Bang!

After a deafening explosion, the man’s body burst like an overinflated balloon, instantly turning into a thick mist of blood.

Warm, sticky blood splattered across Jiang Jinyue’s face. The strong stench of blood filled her nose, and her entire body went weak as she collapsed to the ground.

So close.

Just a little closer, and she would have died here.

The man’s horrific death terrified the already panicked people around her.

The crowd completely descended into chaos. Everyone scrambled backward in fear, and before long, Jiang Jinyue was the only one left at the edge of the thick fog.

She sat alone on the cold ground, quietly watching this absurd and bizarre scene. Strangely enough, she suddenly calmed down.

It was like riding a roller coaster. Once her emotions had climbed to their peak, they dropped sharply, leaving behind only an endless calm.

Jiang Jinyue took a deep breath and slowly stood up. She casually wiped the blood from her face with her coat and began to think clearly.

A second ago, she had been about to sign the surgical consent form after her family’s car accident. Then her vision had gone black, and in the next moment, she had arrived in this damned place.

The sky was a gloomy grayish white. As far as she could see, there were endless crowds and thick white fog. A glaring white line separated the people from the mist.

At first, Jiang Jinyue had thought that walking into the fog would let her return quickly. Instead, it turned out to mean certain death.

Thinking back to the screams and discussions she had heard when she first arrived, it was easy to tell that these people, just like her, had all suddenly been brought here.

As she ran over just now, she had even seen two completely naked men who had clearly been in the middle of showering. There were also quite a few elderly people and children.

What exactly was going on?

A terrorist attack? Alien abduction? A mass transmigration?

Or was it an infinite-flow scenario? A horror game? A rules-based ghost story? Or something else entirely?

But no matter what this was, her mother and father were still waiting for her in the operating room, and her bank card was still in her hand. She had to survive and get out!

Jiang Jinyue silently clenched her fists.

Just then, a cold electronic voice filled with malice suddenly rang out in the air, clearly reaching everyone’s ears.

【Welcome, everyone, to the Dormitory Survival Game!!!

You hate your current lives and long for a chance to change everything. God has answered that wish.

Freedom, money, time, love, wisdom, beauty, health…

Here, anything you want can come true, as long as you clear the game.】

When everyone heard this, the fear on their faces instantly turned into joy. Even Jiang Jinyue’s previously cold eyes lit up. But in the next second, the system continued:

【The following are the rules for this game. Players, please remember them carefully:

1. Clearance condition: Survive in the trial grounds for one month.

2. Initial safe time: Five hours. Please find your dormitory within five hours.

3. For now, each dormitory can only hold one person. It is your absolute safe house, as well as your future construction and defense point.

4. The beginner protection period lasts three days. After three days, the difficulty will increase.

5. Players’ survival supplies are mainly obtained from treasure chests. Treasure chests will randomly drop into the dormitory corridors each day.

6. Every player has their own game panel. You can summon it by silently calling for it in your mind. The panel has many functions, which players must explore on their own.

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7. The top ten players in this round will receive one chance to make a wish.

8. Players who do not enter the top ten but successfully survive for one month may return to their original world. The time will be synchronized with the moment they entered, but they will lose all memories of this period.

9. Death in the game means death in reality.

The dormitory gate will open in three seconds…

Finally, the game begins. For the sake of your desires, survive at all costs.】

As soon as the voice finished speaking, the thick white fog surrounding them dispersed, revealing a dormitory building that towered into the clouds.

At that moment, the building’s red iron gate slowly opened.

The lights inside were dim and eerie, making the building look like the gaping mouth of an abyss, waiting for prey to walk right in.

The noisy crowd around her also fell silent.

Everyone looked at one another, still somewhat dazed, unable to understand what had just happened.

But the moment the electronic voice stopped, Jiang Jinyue shot forward like an arrow released from a bow, heading straight for the building entrance.

The instant she rushed out, several quicker-reacting players hurried after her.

It was like a spark landing on a fuse. The crowd was instantly set off, and everyone began rushing toward the gate, fighting to be first.

Because Jiang Jinyue had been standing near the edge from the beginning, she was the first to step into the building.

Standing inside the familiar elevator, before she even realized what she was doing, her finger had already pressed the number five.

That was the floor where the ICU ward was located in the provincial hospital.

How many days had it been?

She had done it so many times that her body moved on its own.

The moment the elevator doors opened, several quick-reacting players behind her squeezed in as well.

Only when the elevator started beeping, and the next player who tried to force their way inside was blown into blood mist, did the others finally give up on trying to squeeze in.