Brrrring, brrrring, brrrring——————
The alarm clock rang the next morning.
A small, white hand emerged from the blanket, struggling and finally found the alarm clock, pushing it down.
“Mmm————So sleepy————What time is it now……”
A lazy female voice came from under the blanket. The small hand brought the alarm clock inside the blanket. Then, 1 minute later.
“Ugh————————I'm going to be late! I'm going to be late! It's Ghost Teacher's class today! I'm dead! I'm dead! Ah—uniform, where's my uniform—!” A golden-haired girl jumped out of the blanket. She got up in a panic.
Thump, thump, thump————
Sounds kept coming.
With incredible speed, the girl put on her uniform and finished brushing her teeth and washing her face.
The girl was none other than the first player to enter the Nightmare World yesterday—Odilia. Shelley.
“Good, I'm pretty today too, as expected of the Daughter of Light and Darkness.” While looking in the mirror, Odilia seemed to nod in satisfaction, then touched her twin ponytails on both sides: “Hm? I feel something is different... What was it? Ah! I remember, that game! What was it again?”
The scenes that happened in the Nightmare World last night flashed through Odilia's mind, so clear, as if she had just experienced it!
“Was it a dream? Why is my memory so clear?” Odilia muttered. From childhood, Odilia had dreamed, but basically, those dreams were already forgotten. Only a few dreams still had some faint impressions, but only very vague impressions. She could hardly say what happened in the dreams.
However, never before had she been so clear about the dream she experienced last night, as if it were something she had done in the real world yesterday!
“That garbage game maker actually made me die three times in the game!” Odilia muttered, then looked at her phone: “Oh no, I'm really going to be late! All thanks to that garbage game maker!”
Odilia rushed out of the house while shouting.
She didn't notice that the "ghost" in the room, shrouded by the curtains, had quietly followed behind her.
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Turning back to Zhang Xingyu, he was engaged in a mind-to-mind conversation with the Nightmare Lord.
“How is she doing? Are there any effects?”
“No effects whatsoever. I told you, someone with spiritual energy can die ten or more times in the Nightmare World without any consequences. Hmph, if I had let her die a few more times yesterday, she would have a lot of energy.”
“Isn't it better to be cautious? You said ordinary people would be affected if they died more than five times.”
“That's just feeling sluggish, they won't die.”
“Once or twice, one or two people, it wouldn't be much of an impact, but once the number of players in the Nightmare World increases, it might be discovered. Playing games and dying too much will affect their mental state the next day, which will be detrimental to our Nightmare game!”
“What's there to be afraid of, at most, it's just some deaths.” The Nightmare Lord didn't care at all.
“In your original world, maybe this is nothing, but in a technological world like ours, it's different. It's better to be safe than sorry. And you are not the invincible Nightmare Lord you once were.”
“Hmph——”
The Nightmare Lord had previously said that if people who enter the Nightmare Realm die too much, their souls will be damaged, and this will reflect on the real world as a lack of energy, weakness, and loss of interest in everything around them.
Zhang Xingyu's plan was to create a virtual world that requires a large number of players. He had no interest in killing, and to ensure the players' enthusiasm for the virtual world, he needed to make sure that the virtual world would not have a significant impact on the real world, especially negative ones.
If it were said that playing virtual games could lead to death, I'm afraid not many people would play virtual games!
And today, the purpose of possessing Odilia was to confirm her situation.
As the Nightmare Lord had been worried about, for someone with spiritual energy like Odilia, there was indeed no sign of any impact. To be honest, Zhang Xingyu felt that Odilia had a bit too much energy!
Of course, in addition to observing Odilia's situation, another important purpose was that Zhang Xingyu wanted to draw other players into the Nightmare World.
Since it's a large-scale virtual online game, how could it be without a large number of players!
However, because the Nightmare Lord is currently in an abnormally weak state, with limited power, it cannot bring too many people into the Nightmare Realm at once.
According to the Nightmare Lord, if it were its peak time in the past, it could engulf an entire country in nightmares, let alone a campus, in a single night!
But now…
Only the most primitive methods can be used, requiring Zhang Xingyu to approach the target human and use Nightmare power.
“Speaking of which… I've never been to school before…” Zhang Xingyu muttered, curiously observing Odilia's school life.
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