Compared to "Werewolf," the rapid rise of "Among Us" and "Goose Goose Duck" lies in their greater unpredictability and stronger entertainment value.
Even experts may not fully control the situation.
Meanwhile, newcomers can still enjoy a decent gaming experience.
Take this moment, for example.
Mu Yawen, who couldn’t lie to save her life, somehow stumbled her way to victory.
Meanwhile, someone as sharp as Zhong Yi suffered three consecutive losses right from the start.
This novel gameplay quickly spread among the cultivators.
The speed was so astonishing that by the evening of the first day, Lu Ze’s system task was already completed.
[Task Complete!]
[Under the host’s guidance, over a hundred righteous cultivators have developed a yearning for the demonic path!]
[Reward obtained: Random Spell]
[Please select a spell category.]
"As I expected," Lu Ze nodded in satisfaction.
Just as he had guessed, making cultivators yearn for the demonic roles in the game, eager to take on the identity of the demonic faction, was enough to fulfill the task.
In this regard, "Goose Goose Duck" and "Among Us" truly were the optimal solutions.
Among the three factions, the demonic side always had the ability to kill and could identify their allies.
They offered the strongest mix of fun and strategic depth, making them the most popular among players.
Unlike the original "Werewolf," where many players felt immense pressure upon receiving the wolf role.
Lu Ze still remembered a struggling novelist from his past life who, after being dealt the wolf role 13 times in a row in online games, rage-quit in frustration…
"Spell category, huh…"
Faced with the overwhelming array of options in his mind, Lu Ze finally settled on the [Illusion] category.
[Congratulations, host! You have obtained a high-tier spell: Fearbound Emotion Array.]
Lu Ze skimmed through the spell’s description.
It could lower a cultivator’s mental defenses within an illusion, guiding them toward a specific emotion—with fear being the most effective.
"Is this pushing me to make horror games?" Lu Ze chuckled inwardly.
The thought of these righteous cultivators—usually unshakable and slaughtering ghosts like weeds—screaming in terror within an illusion amused him greatly.
"Still, now’s not the time."
Lu Ze shook his head, setting the idea aside for now.
Horror games could wait.
The current accumulation rate of demonic energy still wasn’t fast enough to satisfy him.
While "Bed Wars" was fun, relying solely on one competitive online game wasn’t enough to ensnare all the cultivators.
He needed other types of games to draw even more of them into the illusion.
"The most widely appealing games…"
Lu Ze stroked his chin in thought.
Two genres quickly came to mind: FPS and MOBA.
He immediately laid out his next plan—
First, finish the remaining maps and roles for "Demonic Slayer," then move on to developing the next competitive game.
Both FPS and MOBA would require significant adaptation.
Whether they could be successfully localized remained uncertain.
Only continuous testing would tell.
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While Lu Ze busied himself designing new illusions, the player base for "Demonic Slayer" continued to grow.
The players were no longer the clueless novices from the first day, blurting out their roles to everyone. Even the most honest Mu Yawen had picked up some basic deception.
Discussions about "Demonic Slayer" grew increasingly heated.
[Can we just delete the Scout? It’s disgusting!!]
[Scout? Absolute trash!]
[Killing a Scout feels like stepping on crap…]
[Just remove the Dumb Owl already… I’m too scared to vote now.]
[Glutton, glutton, I want to be the Glutton!]
[After playing this illusion too much, I can’t trust anyone in real life.]
[Yesterday, I blurted out “What’s your role?” to my master and got punished with a full day of hard cultivation…]
[Avoid the prodigy from Lingxiao Sect—way too good at lying. Don’t listen to a word he says.]
[Wait, weren’t we supposed to learn how to spot demonic cultivators? Why do we all sound like demonic cultivators now?]
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"Junior Brother Mu, how do you feel now? Has this illusion been helpful?"
"Absolutely! Now, when I recall the words of those demonic cultivators disguised as villagers, they seem like amateurs compared to you, Senior Brother!"
Mu Yawen nodded earnestly.
Zhong Yi’s face reddened slightly, unsure whether she was complimenting or insulting him.
"But by your standards, Junior Brother Lu seems more like the real demonic cultivator, hahaha…"
Mu Yawen giggled, then added absentmindedly,
"Oh right, I think everyone calls him… Lu the Demon."
"Come on, Junior Brother Mu, I’ve sent you an invite."
Zhong Yi entered the illusion world of "Demonic Slayer," and Mu Yawen joined the room shortly after.
"Brother Zhou still can’t make it today?"
Shen Yan of the Tianxuan Sect asked curiously.
He and Zhong Yi had grown close these days, often playing "Demonic Slayer" together.
"Him? He’s playing 'Demonic Slayer' too, just… the real-life version."
Zhou Qiaoling replied.
As a core disciple, Zhou Yue was leading a team to participate in a demonic extermination campaign.
"Ha, when Old Zhou gets back, we’ll have to mess with him properly."
As the host of the room, Zhong Yi quickly adjusted the settings.
"Alright, let’s start!"
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[Your identity is: Demon Path (Hidden Demon)]
Looking at his assigned role, Zhong Yi felt a surge of glee, though his expression remained perfectly neutral.
The unique trait of this class was its invisibility skill.
The downside? While invisible, he couldn’t see the positions of other players—landing a kill was purely a matter of luck.
‘If Old Zhou were here, he’d definitely end up stabbing his own teammates every time…’
Zhong Yi silently mocked in his mind.
It seemed that among the Demon Path, those with slightly overpowered abilities always came with flaws.
Take the [Death Curse Master], for example—guess the wrong class, and you’d be the one to die.
Clearly, these were a bunch of half-baked demonic practitioners.
As soon as the game began, Zhong Yi pulled up the class template for the round.
He had set up a 14-player room with a template of 3 Demon Path, 3 Demon Beasts, and 8 Innocents.
The template displayed 8 revealed classes, while the remaining 6 were hidden.
Four Innocents were shown:
[Constable], [Swordsman], [Scout], and [Undercover].
Two Demon Path classes were revealed:
[Death Curse Master] and [Silent Throat].
And two Demon Beasts:
[Rotting Fiend] and [Malicious Ghost].
"Scouts and Undercover again…"
Zhong Yi scoffed.
The notorious uselessness of the [Scout] was well-known.
The [Undercover], meanwhile, would display a red name identical to their teammates’, throwing off their judgment.
Amid these two walking disasters, there was also the [Malicious Ghost], whose killing range was even wider than the Demon Path’s…
Internal strife and external threats—what a headache.
"Ah well. Dancing on the edge of a blade—that’s the true resolve of the Demon Path…"
Mid-sentence, Zhong Yi suddenly paused.
Huh.
Why was he starting to sound more and more like an actual demonic practitioner…
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
