1. Pale Dawn

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'Pale Dawn, a next-generation holographic survival horror simulation game, will be available globally at 8 o'clock tonight! ’

In the first quarter, the top 10 players on the Escape Leaderboard will share a cash prize of 100 million! ’

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- Identity number: 09204503011907, name: Bai Ye.

- Verification successful! Welcome to Pale Dawn!

The picture gradually lit up.

This is a ten-square-meter cottage with simple furnishings.

A mirror for clothes, a work table, and a yellow wooden storage box.

In the interview mirror, a silver-haired young man wearing white T jeans was reflected, less than one meter eight tall, with a thin figure, and his appearance was almost the same as Bai Ye in reality.

Retracting his gaze from the fitting mirror, Bai Ye walked towards the wooden door of the hut - this door is equivalent to the 'start game' option in a normal game.

- There are still 4 hours and 32 minutes before the official opening of this game, and it is detected that you have not completed the beginner level, have you entered the beginner tutorial?

Bai Ye clicked yes, and the wooden door in front of him 'creaked' open.

The picture darkened and turned into a thick form of billowing black smoke.

Narration appears in the black smoke:

"The car broke down on the road, and you can't get in touch with the outside world, and you're trying to find help from the locals."

"But as you follow the smoke of the cooking in the distance and find this hut built in the woods, you also notice...... In the clearing outside the hut, there was also a human corpse that had been skinned. ”

"You are scared and want to flee, but at this moment, there are several dog barking voices not far behind you."

"In a panic, you subconsciously hid in the hut in front of you......"

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After a few seconds, the black smoke dissipated.

Bai Ye noticed that he was standing in a room of about fifty square meters.

There was an unpleasant stench of fish, a little light leaking in from the wooden windows, and only the outlines of some furniture could be faintly seen, two single beds placed against the wall, and a square table in the middle of the house.

At this time, there were a few dog barks outside the house, and the torches began to shake on the pane, and a text prompt appeared in front of Bai Ye's eyes;

Judging from the corpse outside, it was clear that the owner of the house was a ruthless fellow, and if he caught him, his life could be in danger. ’

- Game Assistant: Please take a cautious stance.

As the prompt appeared, a figure icon of a cat walking on his waist appeared in the lower left corner of Bai Ye's sight, which was flashing in a highlighted manner, and a text description appeared next to it:

[Cautious stance: ...... like a cat On tiptoe. 】

[Stance Effect: Increases vision, reduces the chance of being spotted by enemies and the sound and movement made when moving, leaving fewer traces after action, but the movement speed will be greatly reduced.] 】

Bai Ye switched his cautious posture according to the prompts.

After a ding, he noticed that his breathing had slowed down, and his hands and feet had subconsciously relaxed.

The sensitivity of the senses seems to have increased, and the vision has become a little brighter, and the room is no longer only visible in the outline of the furniture, but also some pots and bowls of cutlery on the square table.

'You have to find a hiding place for yourself before they come in. ’

As the prompt text appears, a green arrow appears in sight, pointing to a room at the back end.

Bai Ye followed the arrow into the room.

There were a lot of messy things piled up inside, and there was a double-door cabinet next to the clutter pile that was flickering with a faint light, indicating that Bai Ye was his hiding place.

He opened the door of the cabinet and hid inside, and within a few seconds there was a sound of the door opening, and a dull footstep accompanied by a heavy gasp entered the room.

Poof!

The sound that a heavy object makes when it is placed on the ground.

The owner of the footsteps muttered something inaudible, and then there was a rustling sound, and Bai Ye saw a faint light of fire outside through the crack in the cabinet door.

The firelight was getting brighter and brighter, and the dull footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the owner of the house began to walk to the room where Bai Ye was hiding after lighting the lamp.

Bai Ye hid in the cabinet and didn't move, holding his breath, trying not to make any noise.

The footsteps stopped, and the surroundings fell silent.

Bai Ye heard his heartbeat accelerate slightly, and the feeling of his heart hitting his chest became intense.

The owner of the house didn't seem to notice anything unusual, and stood outside the cabinet for a short moment, then walked outside with the sound of dull footsteps.

After a while, the fire was extinguished, and Bai Ye heard the creaking sound of the wooden bed being oppressed, and the owner of the house also hummed a comfortable nasal sound.

After waiting for about a few more minutes, a loud snoring could be heard outside the house.

'Chance to escape! ’

The prompt appears again in front of you.

Bai Ye gently pushed open the cabinet door, and the cat tiptoed outside.

The green arrow reappears, pointing in the direction of the gate.

But just as Bai Ye was about to walk forward along the arrow, a new prompt suddenly appeared in front of him: 'Watch your step! ’

He subconsciously glanced at his feet, and immediately saw a terrifying bloody dead face without epidermis covering it, staring at him with wide eyes.

"The appearance of this prompt can be even more frightening."

Ninety percent of the people will subconsciously glance at their feet when prompted, and in doing so, they will be able to see the skinless corpse on the ground.

Moreover, the face orientation of the corpse was obviously deliberately arranged, and the purpose was purely to frighten people.

Bai Ye's pupils contracted suddenly, although he was not frightened by this scene, the tension still spread involuntarily.

His heart beat a little faster......

"This game is quite suitable for me."

He couldn't help but smile a little self-deprecatingly:

"At the very least, you don't have to worry about your heart struck while you're playing games."

Since he could remember, Bai Ye's heartbeat was slower than normal, and as he grew older, his heart rate began to continue to decline.

A normal 23-year-old young man's heart rate is between 60 and 100, but Bai Ye is only 30 to 60.

This is the data that he has only detected by doing some stimulation behaviors that accelerate the heartbeat for a long time.

If his heart rate was allowed to slow down, Bai Ye might have stopped his heartbeat a few years ago.

However, although the heart rate continues to decrease, it does not cause other heart diseases.

Instead of inducing the disease, it also brought Bai Ye an extraordinary talent:

Because his body adapts to the slow heartbeat, once Bai Ye's heart rate can reach the range of 60-100 of a normal person, the adrenaline in his body will be secreted in large quantities, and he will gain a clearer mind, faster reactions, and a more flexible body.

With this extraordinary talent, he can do many things that ordinary people would not be able to do.

Last weekend, for example, he signed up for a holographic shootout game called PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

With his superhuman reaction speed and shooting accuracy, he still achieved a good result of 23 kills even though all three teammates were killed, and easily won a cash prize of 8W yuan for the first place.

In fact, he has been frequently participating in such competitions recently, and he has always won handsome prize money, and has even become famous in the entire holographic game circle......

But Bai Ye was not satisfied.

He was in dire need of money.

There is an urgent need to raise 100 million yuan before the cardiac arrests to purchase the mechanical heart 'New Life' developed by the world-renowned medical technology company 'Second Life' for heart exchange surgery.

For example, the amount of prize money that can be earned by participating in a PUBG tournament is too small after all.

Relying on tens of thousands of dollars at a time, if you want to raise enough 100 million, you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey? What's more, this kind of competition doesn't happen every day.

So, Bai Ye recently set his sights on a new target - "Pale Dawn"!

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