Chapter 728: No More Dynasty Warriors Style, so in the End, You Show Us Hide-and-Seek?!

As far back as the days of the Jiuhua City branch, Boss Fang had already dabbled in Silent Hill.

Naturally, it had left a deep, indelible impression on the veteran players.

Back then, Boss Fang’s performance had been purely mediocre—just managing not to lose his way, but far from putting on a show.

There were even... rumors whispering that afterward, he had been so utterly terrified that he could barely walk.

Thus, when Sera, seeking a measure of certainty, went so far as to secretly ask a couple of questions in the group chat...

Su Tianji declared, "This is wonderful! This will absolutely scare that garbage boss to death!"

Nalan Mingxue noted, "I feel this has potential."

Song Qingfeng chipped in, "666, props to your brilliant idea!"

With that, the little gathering of elves was naturally brimming with confidence.

A pair of wide eyes stared intently at Boss Fang. "Well? Do you lack the courage?"

"Lack the courage?!" Boss Fang pondered for a moment. "If we play, we play. What is there to fear?"

"Huh...?" Nothing to fear?! That was exactly what we thought when we first started playing!

"This boss is definitely blustering," Sera muttered under her breath.

"Exactly, I already asked around in the group chat. When he played games of this genre before, he just played normally..." Loulin agreed.

"And there are rumors that he was scared witless, unable to walk!"

"Hmph! This time we are going to terrify him into a stupor!" Sera said.

How dare he frighten us?!

And he had frightened so many elves; it was simply abominable.

A throng of elves hastily followed behind to spectate the spectacle.

In passing...

"I am going to buy a bag of potato chips," Loulin announced.

"I will go buy a box of spicy sticks too!" Sera felt that munching while watching the boss get terrified would surely be highly amusing.

"Bring me a box as well!" Elder Qiwei urgently chimed in. "And a bag of potato chips!"

A box of spicy sticks in the left hand, a bag of chips in the right—it was pure bliss.

Then, the flock of elves, each cradling their snacks, dragged over stools to sit behind Boss Fang and watch, inadvertently bringing a considerable boost to the shop’s revenue.

Even the nearby assassins and random passersby could not help but buy bags of chips, and soon a large crowd had gathered around.

"Is someone playing this again?"

"They are bound to be scared to death..."

They chewed down a huge mouthful of spicy sticks as they spoke, finding the spectacle immensely satisfying to digest.

Boss Fang’s game progress had apparently not yet reached the part where fingers were severed; because he had spent a long time that morning watching these elves stream behind Sera, his own game progress had not caught up yet.

Supernatural phenomena would not appear in the early stages of the game, but this bloated monster possessed not only Herculean strength but also an extraordinary abundance of patience. No matter where the player fled, or how far they ran, he would relentlessly pursue.

He would even deliberately lie in ambush along certain unavoidable paths.

The protagonist needed to take barely a single punch from him before being forced to exit the game entirely; if caught, one could never escape the fate of having their head ripped off.

At this moment, Boss Fang was still experiencing the segment just before encountering the finger-cutting "Doctor"—the protagonist had finally managed to go upstairs, only to be blasted back down to another area on the first floor by a suddenly exploding elevator.

This place led to the asylum's sewers.

To proceed, one needed to turn two sewer valves.

"Here it comes, here it comes..." Sera said excitedly, "I was trapped in a room and caught here so many times!"

She hastily ate a spicy stick, feeling entirely blissful.

Boss Fang was seen running forward along the sewer line; hearing the sound of someone dropping from above ahead of him, he turned right into a fork without even looking.

Boss Fang opened his live stream and provided commentary: "At this time, when it is time to run, you still must run. We run all the way to this valve room, close the door, and shut the valve."

At this moment, players from both the new and old shops were watching. Sera was highly smug: "Isn't this just trapping oneself in a dead end?"

"Hahaha, he is actively seeking his own doom." She took another bite of potato chips.

Just then, they heard Boss Fang continue: "Now there is only one path, which is the one the monster is chasing down. But at this moment, we must remain calm; there are still things we can do."

Boss Fang turned around. The valve room had only a single light, which could only illuminate the area around the valve, while the further corner was shrouded in pitch darkness.

Boss Fang went straight to the darkest corner to the right of the entrance and squatted down.

By now, the iron door of the valve room had been forced open.

"What is the thinking of a normal person at a time like this? To look for cabinets, boxes, or any obstacle that can hide a person. Therefore, at this time, one must be calm, and then consider what the opponent is thinking, doing the exact opposite to make him feel that such a place absolutely cannot hide anyone." Boss Fang just squatted in the corner, able to see the fat monster clearly just a few meters ahead of him, without any obstacles blocking the view.

The bloated monster scanned around; the corner held only a patch of darkness, so he then walked toward the deeper areas where a person could actually hide.

At this point, Boss Fang calmly stood up and slipped out the door.

"Holy crap?!"

"He courted death but didn't die?!"

The fat monster had barely vanished when Boss Fang slipped out right behind him to turn the second valve.

By the time the fat monster caught up, the sound of chains had only just been heard, and Boss Fang had already slipped through the tunnel beside the sewer.

The entire sewer area was vast, and it was frequently plunged into total darkness. After bypassing the fat monster's pursuit at the second valve, he slowly arrived at the final area, and at this moment...

It would be blocking the way ahead, and because it was a pitch-black void, you could not even see where he was.

Boss Fang spoke up: "In the sewers, you must absolutely not jump around blindly, nor should you walk at a fast pace, because you have no idea where he is, and he has no idea where you are. Whoever makes a sound first is effectively giving the other a location."

It was worth mentioning that because the night-vision mode of the camcorder would emit a tiny amount of light, it would also increase the chance of being discovered by enemies in the system version.

Therefore, taking a stealthy peek from afar with night vision in the dark was fine, but one would surely be exposed in close proximity.

Boss Fang took two stealthy glances with night vision and indeed saw the fat monster guarding ahead.

Only when he patrolled toward the side did Boss Fang walk past.

The sound of stepping onto the metal plates upon stepping ashore was unavoidable; soon, a hurried clanking of chains was heard pursuing from behind.

In the darkness, Boss Fang activated the camcorder's night vision, sprinting wildly all the way to climb out directly from the ladder at the sewer exit ahead.

"My word..."

"That simple?!"

The crowd of onlookers felt as though they were not watching a horror game at all.

Are you playing hide-and-seek, you blockhead?!

In the bullet comments, a crowd of people frantically spoke from the fat monster’s perspective:

"Fatty: FFS, I can't find him the entire game. Am I playing with a ghost?"

"Fatty: The director told me to come to the sewers to play a scene with him...??? Where is he?"

"Fatty: I can't take this weight anymore!"

This feels like a deliberate attempt to make life impossible for me!

"Am I even a monster anymore? Can I get a little respect here?"

"Is this actually supposed to be a horror game?"

"I think this should be renamed *Assassin's Creed: Hide and Seek*. Give him a hidden blade, and he could probably backstab his way through the whole thing..."

"How can anyone even play it like this..." Sera and the others were practically moved to tears; just when they thought he could no longer pull off a one-man army display, he went ahead and showed them an masterclass in hide-and-seek instead!

"It actually looks kind of fun..." Su Tianji took a bite of a potato chip, already feeling the urge to give it a try herself in a bit.

As the game dug deeper, the supernatural phenomena that had been completely absent in the first half gradually began to surface, and at this point, the hidden truth of the entire game was slowly being uncovered...

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I think I'll still post the next chapter during the day..

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