I Play the Horror World as a Simulation Game

The sudden sound outside the door was the TV in the living room turning on unexpectedly.

Qin Nuo paused his hand as it reached for the doorknob.

The Blood-Eyed Ghost warned, "I sensed its presence, so it must have sensed us too."

"Don't panic, that Half-Ghost is weaker than the masked ghost."

Qin Nuo said, "I know, I'm just worried about Tang Ming's safety."

After a moment of silence, Qin Nuo decisively turned the doorknob and walked out.

In the living room, the TV was playing commercials. Tang Ming sat on the sofa, his eyes fixed on the TV, but his expression was unnatural.

"Old Tang, I came as soon as I heard the call."

"The door downstairs is broken, so I climbed up from the banyan tree in the backyard."

Tang Ming's lips twitched, "It's fine, that door is always broken, you'll get used to it."

"What did you need me for, so urgently that you couldn't say it over the phone?" Qin Nuo asked while keeping an eye on his surroundings.

"Come over and sit down first, I'll... I'll tell you slowly." Tang Ming's lips were stiff, and though he was smiling, cold sweat was dripping down his forehead.

In this situation, anyone who wasn't a fool could tell something was wrong.

Yet Qin Nuo didn't find any trace of another person in the living room.

Tang Ming repeated his request for Qin Nuo to come and sit down.

Meanwhile, his eyes kept glancing downward.

Qin Nuo looked at Tang Ming's feet. There was no gap under the sofa, and the coffee table was in plain view. Why was Tang Ming signaling toward his feet?

"Alright, you seem off today, are you feeling unwell? Do you want me to take you to see a doctor?"

Qin Nuo said as he walked over.

The moment he sat down, Qin Nuo suddenly noticed something was wrong.

The sunlight coming in from the balcony wasn't strong, but Tang Ming's shadow on the sofa was very clear.

Was the shadow fake?

In that instant of realization, the other party also noticed.

The shadow at Tang Ming's feet suddenly sprang up, forming two spikes that aimed at Qin Nuo's forehead and heart.

Qin Nuo reacted quickly, or rather, he had been keeping his body tense and nerves alert. As the spikes came, he sidestepped to avoid them and swiftly distanced himself. ȒἈＮоΒĘṡ

"Old Qin, behind you!" Tang Ming shouted.

Qin Nuo turned around, and another shadow on the ground coiled around him like a snake, with a spike pressed against his throat.

"Your reaction is quite fast."

A voice came, and a man slowly walked out of the bedroom.

It was none other than Ye Ming, who had once given them tutoring lessons!

Ye Ming stared intently at Qin Nuo, as if a prey had fallen into his trap, a twisted smile playing on his lips. "Or should I say, that's not a human reaction, it's because of the ghost inside you."

Qin Nuo looked at Ye Ming, not too surprised. Ye Ming had been one of his suspects, especially after their disagreement in the classroom, when Ye Ming's gaze had felt off.

"Isn't this Teacher Ye Ming? Long time no see. What's going on here? A magic trick?"

With the spike against his throat, Qin Nuo asked with an unchanged expression.

"You think I wouldn't notice your little schemes?"

Ye Ming sneered, his eyes fixed on Qin Nuo. "I've spent a lot of effort to find you. Those students before, they all died because of you."

"The first time you were forcibly sent into the Horror Game, you managed to form a contract with a ghost. Should I say you're lucky or just unlucky?"

Qin Nuo swallowed and said, "Teacher Ye, is there some misunderstanding here? Maybe we can sit down and talk, no need to be so impulsive, right?"

Ye Ming laughed coldly, "You can keep pretending to be dumb. Once I tear you apart, I'll separate the ghost inside you myself."

Tang Ming's face turned pale, his voice trembling, "Killing is illegal, Teacher Ye, aren't you a police officer too? Don't be impulsive!"

"It seems you still don't understand the world now."

"Since the Horror Game appeared, the dark side of this world has been fully revealed. Many orders have been broken, and people fight to the death every day for the Horror Game, with countless deaths."

"This can't be stopped. The only thing they can do is cover up this dark side, fooling the innocent, like you."

"If I kill you now, without leaving a trace, no one will trace it back to me."

"Your classmates before are perfect examples."

Tang Ming was dumbfounded, looking at Qin Nuo with eyes suddenly red and full of guilt, "Old Qin, I'm sorry, I dragged you into this because I was afraid to die. I thought he just wanted something and would let us go..."

Qin Nuo ignored Tang Ming and suddenly asked, "Does anyone else know about this besides you?"

Ye Ming sneered, "There's only one prey, why would I be stupid enough to share it with others?"

"So, only you know I'm a Half-Ghost."

Qin Nuo nodded in realization, and unlike Tang Ming's near-collapse expression, he had a slight smile on his lips, "Just you alone, I'm afraid you can't handle me, Teacher Ye."

Ye Ming adjusted his glasses.

"I'm a cautious person. Before taking action, I make thorough calculations."

"A student forcibly sent into the Horror Game, able to form a contract with a ghost, must be a fluke."

"An eighteen-year-old student with no experience in killing, while I have over twenty lives in my hands. The ghost inside you, I sensed before, it's injured and poses no threat."

"Moreover, your body is now bound by my shadow. With just a twitch of my finger, your throat will be pierced."

Ye Ming spread his hands, "Do you think you have any chance of surviving today?"

"Call out the ghost inside you, and I'll give you a quick death."

"Otherwise, I'll start with your friend, then you, cutting off fingers one by one, then other parts."

Qin Nuo's expression remained unchanged, "If you had found me two weeks ago, I might have been at your mercy as you said."

"But now, it's different."

"What can you do in fourteen days?" Ye Ming scoffed.

"A lot."

Qin Nuo's sudden smile made Ye Ming uneasy, and he swung his right hand sharply.

The shadow spike against Qin Nuo's throat didn't pierce through; instead, it softened like a puddle of water, scattering to the ground.

"What happened?" Ye Ming was shocked.

His gaze suddenly focused on Qin Nuo's right arm, where a large number of corpse spots spread, emitting a terrifying ghost aura.

Ye Ming's face froze, and an eye opened on his right cheek, urgently shouting, "Run!"

"This kid's ghost has recovered from its injuries, it's not the same level as two weeks ago!"

Hearing this, Ye Ming's face turned pale, and he turned to rush toward the balcony.

Smashing through the glass of the floor-to-ceiling window, before he could leap over the balcony, a ghostly hand covered in corpse spots reached from behind, grabbing his neck.

The strength was terrifying, and Ye Ming felt his Adam's apple about to shatter, his mouth instinctively opening, his face filled with panic.

The next second, he was pulled back.

Ye Ming's body slammed hard against the wall, the whitewashed wall instantly denting.

After coughing violently twice, he looked up at the now imposing Qin Nuo, his eyes filled with shock and confusion.

"You could kill me, so why all the talk at the beginning?"

"Like you, I'm a cautious person."

"Without confirming if you have accomplices, my heart was always uneasy. Now I can be at ease."

Ye Ming's face was pale, and he said in a deep voice, "Even without accomplices, once my guild finds out I've disappeared, they'll investigate thoroughly. You won't escape either."

"We'll deal with that when the time comes."

At this point, there was no way Qin Nuo would let Ye Ming go.

Ye Ming took a couple of breaths, seeing Qin Nuo approaching, and suddenly said, "Wait, I know a secret, you might be interested..."

Qin Nuo raised an eyebrow, "Let's hear it."

Ye Ming didn't speak, and Qin Nuo felt a chill behind him, along with Tang Ming's exclamation.

The eerie shadow had somehow silently crept behind Qin Nuo, ready to strike, but Qin Nuo, as if he had eyes on the back of his head, grabbed the shadow with a backhand.

With a forceful grip, the shadow scattered to the ground again.

As Qin Nuo turned back, Ye Ming once again attempted to escape, desperately rushing toward the window.

But it was all in vain, as Qin Nuo easily grabbed his neck with one hand.

At that moment, a sudden change occurred.

Ye Ming's face twisted, letting out a painful scream, his whole body convulsing wildly.

The shadow connected to his feet suddenly opened a pair of eyes, then detached from the ground, leaving Ye Ming's body.

As the shadow separated from his body, Ye Ming's flesh seemed to be drawn out, rapidly withering.

The moment he fell to the ground, he turned into a dried corpse, mouth agape, emitting a hoarse wail.

His protruding eyes stared ahead, filled with terror.

The detached shadow quickly rushed toward the balcony.

"To forcibly break the contract just to escape, is he really that afraid of death?"

In a flash, three blood eyes on Qin Nuo's right hand suddenly opened, and countless black threads shot out, entangling the shadow outside the house, forcibly pulling it back.

The five fingers clamped down on the shadow like a lock.

"A shadow ghost, such ghosts are rare," the Blood-Eyed Ghost said with a greedy gleam in its eyes.

The shadow ghost, having forcibly broken the contract, was already severely weakened, yet it hadn't expected that even at such a cost, it couldn't escape the opponent's grasp.

The shadow ghost reflected Ye Ming's shadow, like his avatar, its eerie eyes pleading, "Spare me, I can serve you."

The Blood-Eyed Ghost sneered, "You only have one use for me."

"And that's to eat you, a great supplement!"

Qin Nuo's mouth twitched, "Not again..."

Fortunately, his worry was unnecessary.

The palm of his right hand suddenly seemed to grow a large mouth, slowly devouring the shadow ghost.

Before the shadow ghost could scream, it was sucked into the palm, and then the entire arm glowed with a layer of blood light.

The Blood-Eyed Ghost nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad, the injuries have recovered a bit more."

Qin Nuo asked in surprise, "Can the host and the contracted ghost forcibly separate?"

"Of course."

"Either party has that right."

"But the cost is severe. If the contract isn't completed, forcibly separating will drain a lot of life force, usually causing the host to die on the spot."

"Just like the one lying on the ground."

"At the same time, the contracted ghost will suffer severe injuries, becoming extremely weak."

"That's the cost of breaking the contract," the Blood-Eyed Ghost explained.

Qin Nuo chuckled dryly, "You wouldn't do that one day, would you?"n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The Blood-Eyed Ghost chuckled twice, "If it really comes to a desperate situation, like just now, who can say for sure?"

"As humans say, when disaster strikes, everyone flies their own way."

Qin Nuo didn't want to continue discussing this topic and walked over to Ye Ming's side.

At this moment, Ye Ming looked as if his life had suddenly reached its end, his eyes bulging, his shriveled and twisted face filled with horror.

He had already breathed his last, with no signs of life.

Qin Nuo turned his head to look at Tang Ming.

The color drained from Tang Ming's face, and he nervously shifted back a bit, "Old Qin, you're not going to kill me to silence me, are you?"

What had just happened had almost scared him senseless, and he looked at Qin Nuo as if he were a monster.

"If I really wanted to kill you to silence you, you'd already be lying there with him."

Qin Nuo withdrew his gaze and asked, "How do we deal with this?"

Ye Ming wasn't exactly killed by him, but his death was undeniably connected to him. It had to be dealt with, and police inquiries were a minor issue. If his guild found out, that would be troublesome.

"Leave it to me." The Blood-Eyed Ghost controlled his right hand, grabbing Ye Ming and heading to the bathroom, closing the door.

Soon, unsettling noises came from the bathroom.

On the sofa, Tang Ming listened to the sounds, his heart pounding in his chest.

Before long, Qin Nuo came out, wiping his hands with a towel.

Tang Ming asked in astonishment, "Where's the body?"

"Flushed down the toilet."

Those simple words made Tang Ming's scalp tingle.

He didn't dare ask how such a large body could be flushed away, instead asking, "What if... someone investigates?"

Qin Nuo smiled, "Ye Ming's words are a perfect answer."

"Now that the world has become chaotic due to the Horror World."

"People are forcibly sent into the Horror World, mysteriously dying or disappearing every day, and there's no time to investigate it all. Why would they care about one Ye Ming?"

"Today, nothing happened. I just came over to chat with you."

"As for Ye Ming, maybe he was forcibly sent into the Horror World and can't come back?"

"A missing person, we haven't seen him, what does it have to do with us?"

"Besides, we shouldn't have a psychological shadow. A scumbag with over twenty lives in his hands is dead, and it's justice served."

Qin Nuo patted Tang Ming's shoulder, his words like a brainwashing session, leaving Tang Ming's mind in chaos.

He kept muttering, "Nothing happened today, you came over to chat..."

These words were also for Qin Nuo himself.

He had been worried about how to handle things if he killed Ye Ming.

Ye Ming's words saved him from those worries...