To ascend, I had no choice but to create games

Chapter 609: Chapter 349: You’re Playing a Pirated Version, Right? (Second Update)_2 Chapter 609: Chapter 349: You’re Playing a Pirated Version, Right? (Second Update)_2 Without paying attention to the situation outside, he began to study the games in the inventory closely, and it wasn’t until a long while later that he realized the knocking sound had been absent for quite some time.

Suspicious, he walked up to the door and was about to peer through the peephole when suddenly a fruit knife pierced through the thin door panel, its tip halting just one centimeter from his eye, almost disfiguring him.

The unexpected appearance of the knife’s tip left Qian Xiaohao with a blank mind, goosebumps rising on his back in an instant, almost making him forget to breathe.

The knife’s tip wobbled a few times, then someone pulled it back from the other side of the door, and the female college student’s soft and glutinous voice rang out again:

“Brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

With a “wow” noise, Qian Xiaohao only then realized what had just happened.

If he had stepped forward even a bit, the tip of the knife would definitely have pierced through his eye!

The fear that bubbled up in that moment caused him to fall to the ground, and then he rapidly retreated.

If this weren’t a game, he assured himself he would have been scared to the point of wetting himself.

The disadvantages of a cheap rental house became apparent at that moment, making him swear that if he had the money, he would definitely buy a steel door with a security system!

But it was already too late for regrets now.

“Brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

The female college student at the door kept calling his name, and with each call, another cut appeared on the door.

Under these circumstances, opening the door was absolutely out of the question for Qian Xiaohao!

He quickly looked around and, seeing an old refrigerator next to him, grabbed it as if it were a treasure and barricaded it in front of the shabby wooden door.

Even with the refrigerator as a barrier, Qian Xiaohao still felt unsafe, so he piled all the heavy objects he could find at the door before he felt somewhat relieved.

The entrance had turned into a small mountain of junk, and the calls from the female college student outside became somewhat muffled, offering Qian Xiaohao a moment of relief as he sat down against his barricade.

Wiping the sweat from his face, he muttered to himself, “What is even happening? How is this broken game supposed to be healing?”

Playing the game as a streamer didn’t bring in any income, and the female college student he encountered was so fanatical. The lady next door might be just as psychotic, and he was sure that if he went over, he wouldn’t make it back out.

Maybe what was in that pot wasn’t beef at all, but something else. He was thankful he hadn’t eaten it, or else he would definitely have thrown up his stomach today.

Looking back, he realized there were many eerie details he had previously overlooked, such as the lady across the hallway always asking about his weight, or the college girl downstairs constantly wanting his spare keys to come over and clean for him.

The more he thought about these details, the more terrifying the game seemed, and he wished he didn’t know any of this.

It wasn’t until his heartbeat steadied that he struggled to get up, finding his legs had gone weak, and he had to lean on the table to stand.

It seemed the female college student at the door had left, and the emotionless knocking had ceased. Just when Qian Xiaohao thought he had dodged a bullet, he heard footsteps.

At the sound, Qian Xiaohao’s complexion changed.

His rental was at the top of the building, and no one lived on the rooftop—so where were these footsteps coming from?

The rental’s ceiling had poor sound insulation, making the footsteps on the roof alarmingly clear, and he could even deduce the intruder’s goal and their exact position.

Following the light footsteps, Qian Xiaohao realized that their target was none other than right above his door.

Looking in the direction of the sound, Qian Xiaohao realized he had made a grave mistake.

He hadn’t closed the window.

In that moment, Qian Xiaohao tapped into all his potential, rapidly rushing to the window and forcefully shutting it.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, something flew in from outside, shattering the fragile glass and knocking over the beef on the table.

Blood mixed with glass debris, and the female college student who had crashed in began to untie the rope bound to her leg, then walked towards Qian Xiaohao with a smile.

Looking at the rope, Qian Xiaohao couldn’t help but visualize the scene on the rooftop.

She walked step by step towards the edge of the house…

She tied the rope around her leg…

She leaped from the edge of the rooftop, then smashed through the glass, landing inside his home.

The female college student looked at Qian Xiaohao just as before, her eyes filled with admiration and shyness.

Even though Qian Xiaohao was just a struggling small-time streamer here, the college girl still worshipped him like an idol and cast shy but loving glances at him intermittently.

And at that moment, her expression was still the same as before, just as pure, just as clear.

However, her face was covered with shards of glass and one arm had broken as she fell to the ground. The girl now appeared to be a moving zombie, inching step by step towards Qian Xiaohao.

The smile on his face remained, the pain seemed to have no effect on her.

When she reached Qian Xiaohao, she mimed the action of knocking on a door, as though there was an invisible one before her.

Afterward, she tidied up her hair, which was full of glass fragments, and said shyly, “Big brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

The eerie and thrilling scene completely broke Qian Xiaohao’s defenses.

He screamed, trying to escape, but the door had already been blocked by himself.

Desperate to remove the obstructing objects, he realized the girl was getting closer and closer, her soft, glutinous voice endlessly echoing behind him:

“Big brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

“Big brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

“Big brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

Finally, Qian Xiaohao completely collapsed.

His heart beat began to race, adrenaline surged through his body, and he descended into utter madness, until the game pod’s safety system detected this and ejected him from the game.

Bolting upright from the game pod, he flailed in the air for a while before realizing that he had left the game.

Letting out a long breath, he noticed he was drenched in cold sweat, his entire body felt as if it had been soaked in water, sticky and uncomfortable.

Trembling, he tried to climb out of the game pod when he suddenly heard a knock on the door:

“Big brother Qian Xiaohao, are you in there?”

“Ah!! Don’t come over here!!”

When the housemaid opened the door, she found Qian Xiaohao had crawled next to the curtains, clutching a rose bush, completely beside himself.

Half an hour later, after changing his clothes, Qian Xiaohao negotiated with the maid for a salary increase on the condition that she wouldn’t tell anyone about what had happened.

Once he was sure the maid wouldn’t tell, he asked through clenched teeth, “Why did you speak like that?”

“Wasn’t it you who asked me to talk like that? You even said it would increase my salary by a thousand.”

“Don’t ever say that again!”

“Okay, but it comes with a price.”

Having no choice but to increase the maid’s salary, Qian Xiaohao went onto Game Inn, and left a negative review under “Wonderful Life.”

Qian Xiaohao: [Fang Cheng Studio, you bunch of damned people! What kind of game is this? Do you understand you’re sinning! What benefit is scaring me to death to you?!]

Passing Keyboard Shrimp: [Yo, isn’t this young master Qian? What’s got you so agitated?]

Qian Xiaohao: [I almost died from fright because of this game, how could I not be agitated? Refund, Geneva conventions, I want a refund!]

Idle Gamer: [I mean, I’m thinking, what’s so scary about this game? The only terrifying thing is getting too addicted and forgetting to pick up your girlfriend.]

Wow Farmer: [Exactly, I farm in the fields every day and walk home alone in the middle of the night without any issues. Sometimes I even chat with people crying at the graves in the cemetery. I’m not scared, so what are you afraid of?]

Passing Keyboard Shrimp: [Where is this cemetery in the game? I want to check it out too.]

Wow Farmer: [Hmm? Did I say it was in the game?]

Passing Keyboard Shrimp: […You win.]

After a while, Qian Xiaohao roughly described his experience in the game.

The ordeal had been too much for him; even writing about it made him shake uncontrollably.

But to accuse Fang Cheng Studio, he went all out.

After reading his description, the other players went silent, then unanimously asked:

[You’re playing a pirated version, right?]