Metaverse: Going Wild in Survival Games

Tang Mu possessed a soft, adorable exterior, yet her inner nature was completely at odds with her appearance. She embodied the fragility of a young beast and the ferocity of a fully grown predator. Walking among the crowd, people were bewitched by her cute and beautiful aura. But should you look at her a moment longer, you would unmistakably sense the power she concealed beneath her delicate features—a force capable of crushing souls.

“Your IP address has been activated.”
“Please insert your game card.”
“Game script generating. Game character generating. Welcome to the Metaverse. An appropriate script has been selected for you.”
“Script B-level: ‘Bride of the Ghost King.’ Transmitting—”
“Transmission successful!”

The scene before her shifted—an aurora visible only in the town of Mohe within the CN territory, and a long, endless river, pitch-black and glowing green, eerie and mysterious. Whenever a breeze swept by, the dark surface of the river would flicker with strange green phosphorescence.

Tang Mu glanced around; the female player characters were all clad in dazzling red and gold wedding robes, draped in crimson veils. The male player characters were dressed as woodsmen, weeping and pulling at the hands of the female players, as if grieving.

But everyone soon realized they were merely being manipulated by the prologue.

“…Are we really this unlucky? B-level script. Even veterans might not make it out alive!”
“Wasn’t there a walkthrough for this game before?”
“It’s useless! Can you even survive to use it? Dreams and wild f