The Nightmare Lord, for the sake of his own “cool factor,” changed Zhang Xing Yu’s original idea of having a “beautiful little fairy sister guide the players” into a 【Nightmare World】 opening, and he even played the role of the Nightmare Lord himself!
Well, these few lines were spoken by the Nightmare Lord himself. He said that anyone hearing his voice would feel immense fear, and this emotional change could be harvested as food.
The Nightmare Lord’s words truly had a very oppressive and terrifying feeling, but Zhang Xing Yu processed the Nightmare Lord’s voice, removing all traces of terror and leaving only mystery and eeriness. This atmosphere was fitting for those opening lines.
Zhang Xing Yu said that if the great Nightmare Lord were to truly appear, it would be something that would shake heaven and earth and make ghosts cry, so he had to arrange a super grand plot for the Nightmare Lord’s appearance and scare a bunch of players. That would truly be fitting for the Nightmare Lord’s cool factor…
After a round of flattery, the Nightmare Lord agreed to remove the terrifying elements from his words.
Because of this, while the little loli, Odilia, was also a bit scared by these opening lines, she didn’t feel intense fear.
The Nightmare Lord could come out and powerfully discourage players, while Zhang Xing Yu could then come out and “powerfully retain players.”
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After those slightly frightening words ended, Odilia immediately felt the surrounding mist dissipate a bit, and before her, a mirror appeared. Inside the mirror, naturally, was Odilia’s own appearance.
【Please customize your player character’s appearance】
These several words, shining with light, appeared in the middle of Odilia’s vision. Afterward, these words shrank and moved to the very top of her vision. At the same time, on the leftmost side of her vision, there were options like 【Face Shape】, 【Skin】, 【Hair】, and 【Makeup】.
“Huh? This interface…it feels so familiar…like the character settings in a certain game?”
As a veteran gamer, Odilia was naturally very familiar with what she saw before her. Wasn’t this the character creation interface that appeared in many games?
“So this means I’m playing a game now…?” Because of this familiar sight, Odilia’s fear instantly vanished by half. She scratched her head in confusion and mumbled, “But…when did I start playing a game… I remember, I was sleeping before… well, it must be a dream? Could it be that I’ve played too many games recently, even my dreams are starting to develop in a game-like direction?”
Dreams were an extension of reality. Odilia felt that she might have played too many games lately.
“Right, this must be a dream. How could there be a fully virtualized game like this in reality? It’s my dream!”
“Since it’s my dream… then I’ll just have a good time playing in my dream… Strange, I can clearly tell I’m dreaming while I’m dreaming… ”
While saying this, Odilia adjusted and set her own appearance.
“Huh? These words… they don’t seem to be in the air, but directly on my retinas…” While trying to set her character’s appearance, Odilia noticed that no matter how her vision changed, these options were always in a fixed position in her field of view. Not only that, but touching these words would emit a soft glow. She could even drag them with her hand.
For example, Odilia dragged the words 【Please customize your player character’s appearance】 to the bottom of her vision. However, when Odilia let go of her hand, these words immediately flew back to their original position.
“This is so fun… but, can’t I customize the interface…?”
On the other side, Zhang Xing Yu and the Nightmare Lord were also observing the little loli. The difference was that Zhang Xing Yu was watching with relish, while the Nightmare Lord was looking very bored.
“Well… she’s worthy of being a veteran player. The first thing she’s researching is the interface, but, customizing the interface, that can be set later…” Zhang Xing Yu muttered. He was a gamer himself, and the first thing he would do when opening a game was to open the settings and adjust the screen resolution, subtitles, key bindings, and so on.
“Her emotional fluctuations are very small, the food that can be harvested can be ignored… If I were to directly take out a saw and saw the little girl’s body apart piece by piece, that would produce a lot of food…” the Nightmare Lord muttered.
“Hey, hey – don’t say such terrifying execution scenes! Besides, this is just the beginning. The key is later.” Zhang Xing Yu heard the Nightmare Lord’s words and couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat and say.
The little loli Odilia finally started setting her character’s appearance, and then, she discovered something very bad.
“What is this? I can’t adjust my face shape, height, or obesity level? What kind of a terrible game is this? If you can’t adjust, don’t put out the options… let me see… hey, 【If you want to deeply customize your character’s appearance, please obtain a special item in the game】… woo-hoo – even adjusting my appearance needs an item? My black long straight, tall and beautiful lady – !! ” Odilia kept poking those options with her hand, looking very annoyed.
This was the Nightmare World, and naturally, the players who entered the Nightmare World would appear in their real form. Zhang Xing Yu didn’t want the players to be able to deeply adjust their character’s appearance because there was a deeper meaning behind it.
Of course, there were still many things that could be adjusted, like hair. Both the hairstyle and color could be freely changed. There was also makeup for different parts of the body. Zhang Xing Yu didn’t know much about women’s makeup, and he just made some options based on his memory.
“Huh? There are only a few places to apply makeup?” The little loli seemed to care quite a bit about her appearance. While making her choices, she was still complaining about the simple interface adjustment options.
Finally, Odilia’s character’s appearance was finalized.
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