I Got My Cheat Skill by Acting My Way into a Horror Protagonist Role Chapter 45

Xiao Gui'an belatedly realized that the last sentence hadn't been spoken by the Proxy System. [Oh, Zero is back? Why are you so elusive, appearing and disappearing randomly?]

The little light sphere in the system space rolled its eyes, white upon white. [There was a problem with one of the worlds, I've been forced to work as cheap labor!]

[Besides, if I didn't come now, who would back you up?]

Hearing this, Xiao Gui'an felt delighted, and the white sphere suddenly seemed much more impressive, radiating colorful divine light. [Great! I knew you were reliable. Can you give me some ultimate skill that can instantly wipe out the entire field?]

[No such thing exists] The white little light sphere clicked its tongue. [However, I do have super awesome special effects! The kind that look completely real! If successful—]

Zero System's voice carried extreme lack of confidence, sounding hesitant and uncertain. [Probably, maybe, perhaps they could fool people? ...]

Xiao Gui'an [Huh? Seriously? You want me to fight monsters with special effects? Who would that fool? This is a real battlefield where we need actual weapons, and I don't even have any armor! ...]

While Xiao Gui'an and Zero System were arguing in their minds, the outside world had already turned upside down.

In Residential Building No. 1.

The veins in his arms bulged, his eyeballs rolled back, and the skin of his throat swelled up as if something was trying to burst out from inside his body.

"Gag—"

Tearing through his windpipe, blood and foam sprayed everywhere as the ghost boy's mouth was violently forced open. Countless blood-red beetles crawled out densely from his mouth, instantly submerging him completely.

These blood-red beetles had several more sharp, slender limbs than the black beetles, with complete forms of Eyeless Eyes patterned on their shells, emitting an eerie and unpredictable aura.

These blood-red beetles seemed to have undergone certain mutations after gestating inside his body, having evolved specifically to target ghosts.

In the blink of an eye, the blood-red beetles also pounced on the Ghost Mother nearby, submerging her from head to toe as well.

"Crack crack—"

When the blood-red beetles squirmed away like a receding tide, the two ghosts had been completely transformed and controlled. A deep, cold death energy dissipated from their bodies, then converged into the soaring red light pillar.

Thick, dark red limbs appeared on the surfaces of the two ghosts, almost bursting through their purplish-blue, deathly pale skin.

At the back of their heads, an enormous blood-red beetle tore through the scalp and emerged, its lower half already completely connected to the brain tissue of the ghosts, thus controlling their movements.

Those thousands of blood-red beetles silently left the room, then infiltrated the entire residential building, intending to assimilate more ghosts, not even sparing the players hiding in the shadows.

The seed that Chen Ze had brought inside had finally bared its fangs, having taken root and sprouted without anyone noticing.

By now, Xu Zisheng understood everything completely.

Chen Ze himself probably hadn't realized that he had long become a puppet of the Eyeless Eyes existence, merely a container for carrying in the seed.

Before everything happened, he was likely still smug about having made a profitable deal.

Being able to obtain information about the safety lock and successfully steal it, while the price to pay was just having part of his flesh eaten by ghosts—no matter how you looked at it, this seemed worth trying. Little did he know that once he came into contact with those forbidden existences, his doomed fate had likely been sealed long ago.

It was just that Xu Zisheng and Xiao Gui'an had accelerated this outcome.

Because of their intervention, the accumulated power wasn't sufficient enough yet.

The process of that unspeakable power dragging the entire residential area into the real world had slowed down. Currently, Sunshine Residential Area still remained in the transitional realm between the real world and the game world.

Or to put it another way, it was half in the real world and half in the game, existing in an extremely peculiar state.

The space was extremely unstable.

However, if given enough time for those blood-red beetles to assimilate all the ghosts in the residential area, and for more black beetles to accumulate energy, this part of the horror game world would likely fully manifest in the real world.

Who knew how much turmoil that would cause.

If one day the entire real world became covered by the horror game world, then humanity's true doomsday would have arrived.

So was this what [Writer] meant when he mentioned small insects back then? He had already detected it and had been quietly watching everything unfold.

These weren't small insects—they were things capable of overturning the entire human world—

Judging by [Writer]'s previous attitude toward this thing in his words, he probably wasn't on the same side as the existence behind the black beetles.

No, not necessarily.

He had been too presumptuous.

Xu Zisheng slightly frowned, his judgment affected by [Writer]'s consistently gentle and easygoing demeanor.

After all, the other party was still a ghost existing within the horror game world. Any so-called goodwill toward humans was minimal at best, and might not even exist at all.

To him, humans were nothing more than dust.

He didn't care about the lives of ants, and his attitude toward current events might just be one of detached calmness.

Even if [Writer] truly had some grievances with the Eyeless Eyes, the final outcome would only be one of two possibilities.

First, he didn't want the other side to succeed, so he would intervene to disrupt the current situation;

Second, he found this interesting situation enjoyable to watch, not only wouldn't he disrupt it, but he might even add fuel to the fire.

Xu Zisheng tensed his body, hesitating whether to approach and seek [Writer]'s protection. His mind was engaged in intense internal conflict, repeatedly analyzing various directions and possibilities.

For now, he could only gamble.

He just didn't know how much bargaining power that severed finger in his possession represented.

If it could only exchange for Gui Yi, that would be fine too. Just as Xiao Gui'an had thought, Xu Zisheng had already come to regard [Gui Yi] as a true friend.

But since he had encountered this situation here, he couldn't possibly stand by and do nothing. Xu Zisheng's eyes darkened.

The cursed child's full moon mark on his wrist began to twist bit by bit, and his aura started continuously changing. A terrifying, ancient distorted shadow faintly appeared behind him.

"Young friend, I sense you're contemplating something quite dangerous?" [Writer] seemed to have detected Xu Zisheng's changes, slightly narrowing his eyes as he spoke. "Why not wait a little longer? Let's see how the people in these lands will respond—"

As soon as his words fell, roaring sounds came from the distance. Armed vehicles appeared in their line of sight, though they had been somewhat disguised and were difficult to detect.

The wind direction in the sky had also changed—there were likely many things in the air as well.

"They arrived quite quickly, not bad." [Writer] stood on the rooftop, looking down at everything from above, his lips curling slightly in a smile. His eyes remained gentle, with a hint of approval and reminiscence in their depths.

"A1, A2, A3 teams advancing, A4, A5 squads prepare for reinforcement at any moment! Do not open fire until orders are received!!—"

"Video communication with headquarters successfully established!! Connecting to all channels!!—"