Most of the participants still had some brains, and among them were quite a few experts with survival skills maxed out. They quickly figured it out: as long as they gave a reasonable explanation, they could enter the residential compound.
Ye Ruoyu and the others entered first, followed closely by participants from the other countries.
Except for a few unlucky souls who were too nervous to think straight.
After seeing the security guard raise his hand and kill someone, one of them broke down and ran toward the street. He was quickly swallowed by the thick fog.
His screams followed soon after. The entities hiding in the fog had long since begun salivating over these people.
As she walked, Ye Ruoyu observed this instance. The residential compound looked no different from one in human society, only more run-down, like an old neighborhood that had existed for centuries.
But what concerned her more was what had happened to that man just now.
“Lin Wei, does he have some kind of powerful talent?”
Lin Wei narrowed his eyes at the figure in the distance. Fang Zhiyi was standing there with his hands on his hips, looking thoroughly obnoxious.
“I don’t know. But if he can directly attack entities, then his talent is at least SS-rank. We just don’t know what limitations it has.”
“No matter how powerful a talent is, it won’t do much good in the hands of someone like that!” one of the sycophants who had been flattering Ye Ruoyu earlier said. “He doesn’t even know how to cooperate. What use is he? He’s selfish.”
Ye Ruoyu opened her mouth, then remembered that her every word and action was being broadcast live. She immediately smiled sweetly and said, “That’s not necessarily true. Everyone has a different personality, and we should be more tolerant of others.”
The livestream chat was filled with praise.
“As expected of Ruoyu—beautiful, kindhearted, and rich!”
“Exactly! That Fang Zhiyi is unbelievably rude.”
“Huh? Speaking of Fang Zhiyi, I feel like I’ve seen that name somewhere before.”
“There are so many people in our country. Sharing a name is perfectly normal. That guy’s just a show-off.”
“Ruoyu! Ruoyu! Invincible across the world!”
Fang Zhiyi couldn’t see the livestream comments, nor did he care about them. By then, he had already reached the area between several apartment buildings. He looked up at them. The buildings were gloomy and sinister, and as the sky gradually darkened, the atmosphere grew even more eerie.
“Ruoyu, should I go invite him to join us?” Lin Wei asked.
Ye Ruoyu was just about to nod when an angry roar rang out.
“Hey, everyone upstairs! Stick your damn heads out and take a look! Whose place do you think this is?!”
The shout startled all the participants.
Fang Zhiyi stood there with his hands on his hips, acting as though Heaven itself ranked first and he ranked second.
“That Dragon Kingdom man has gone insane!” someone exclaimed. The security guard had already warned them that making noise in the compound after five o’clock was forbidden!
Following Fang Zhiyi’s roar, numerous heads appeared above them. A few twisted shadows emerged as well. Looking at the entities inside the apartment buildings, the participants felt their scalps go numb.
“That guy’s going to get us all killed!” someone complained.
Curly raised his hand. “We didn’t shout! He did! He did!” He frantically pointed toward Fang Zhiyi.
A figure in red leaped straight down from the fifth floor, making everyone’s hearts jolt. It was a female entity with disheveled hair and bare feet. Her face was obscured, but through her tangled hair, they could see one blood-red eye.
“This is the end of him.” Lin Wei shook his head, secretly sneering. Did that fellow really think that having a powerful talent made him invincible?
The female entity suddenly moved close to Fang Zhiyi and stared at him. At the same time, she sniffed deeply, as if she were inhaling the scent of some delicious food.
Fang Zhiyi frowned at her.
The female entity’s body stiffened. Looking incredulous, she raised her head and met Fang Zhiyi’s gaze.
Then, without warning, she turned and ran!
The inexplicable move left everyone utterly bewildered.
Soon afterward, a neighborly girl in a red dress, with pale skin, shyly emerged from the corridor on the first floor. Her hands were clasped in front of her, and she looked exactly like a bashful young woman. She gazed at Fang Zhiyi, opened her mouth, then immediately lowered her head in embarrassment.
The scene left the participants dumbfounded, and the viewers in the livestream just as stunned.
“W-Would you like to come over to my place and sit for a while...?”
Fang Zhiyi nodded. Without paying any attention to the others, he started walking into the building, and the entity in the red dress hurried after him.
Back on Earth, the number of viewers in Fang Zhiyi’s livestream skyrocketed. The chat was filled with question marks.
Analysis teams from every country urgently began investigating his background. Yet no matter how thoroughly they searched, the man appeared utterly ordinary. He was alone, had no recorded history, and was essentially a nobody on the fringes of society.
More entities watched in confusion as one of their own led a human inside, then turned around and began sizing up the other humans.
“Um, I—I’m...” A nearby participant had only just begun speaking when an entity suddenly grabbed him.
“What are you wandering around for? It’s dark already! Why aren’t you home?” the entity barked.
The participant cried out in pain, and the entity clutching his arm instantly saw red.
“The compound rules state that no one may make noise after five o’clock.”
The others watched as the entity tore the participant apart with its bare hands.
Lin Wei frowned and said quietly, “It seems that each person’s identity corresponds to a different household. Be careful.”
The others nodded one after another.
Ye Ruoyu, meanwhile, was both startled and suspicious. Just who was Fang Zhiyi? Why did it feel as though that entity knew him?
But there was no time to dwell on it. She adjusted her expression and swept her gaze across the entities until she locked eyes with a middle-aged female entity whose face was blue-gray.
“You...”
Ye Ruoyu immediately broke into a sweet smile. “Mom, the security guard stopped me just now. Otherwise, I would’ve been home already.”
The female entity clearly hadn’t expected the human girl to react so quickly. After a moment of stunned silence, she forced out a stiff smile.
“Then come home first.”
Ye Ruoyu followed her toward one of the apartment buildings.
After seeing her example, the other participants also began searching for a place to belong based on their assigned identities.
Fang Zhiyi had already reached the seventh floor. He leaned over the railing and looked down. Several participants who had failed to find a place to go were already panicking, while the entities were clearly making things difficult for them, watching them tremble with sinister smiles.
“E-Excuse me... The maintenance worker’s room...”
“Why would a maintenance worker have a room here? You’re not really a maintenance worker, are you?”
“Don’t kill me! Aah!”
Fang Zhiyi sighed. He had no idea who designed this game, but the pitfalls had been made far too obvious.
Although everyone had a different identity, their apparent objective was to get inside a house. A maintenance worker didn’t need to ask for a room at all—he only had to ask which household needed something repaired. That had to be one of the rules as well. Once inside, all they needed was an excuse to stay the night.
In a world of entities, who said anything had to make sense?
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
