Mobo Novels
An egg broken from the inside is life, broken from the outside is food—Hemingway.
Outside the window, several cherry blossom trees are planted for the patients to enjoy.
Summer happens to be a good season for viewing cherry blossoms, but always watching them can inevitably become a bit monotonous.
Yan Cheng rests one hand against the window, his smooth head slightly bowed, revealing a hint of a smile.
Beep…
Beep…
Beep…
The ECG monitor’s fluctuations are unusually normal, yet this still doesn’t allow him to get out of bed and go outside to take a look.
Because he is a mid-stage brain cancer patient.
A man on the brink of death.
He’s only twenty-six years old, having just reached the position of a top salesperson, and hadn’t had the chance to enjoy life before being diagnosed with such an illness.
He doesn’t want to die.
If there’s any way to survive… then it must be to enter the world that has never surfaced before, ’that’ world.
Yan Cheng opens his phone, looking at the disappearance news he has collected over the past month.
【The old beggar who had been guarding under the Jiangdu Bridge for ten years disappeared for half a year and then reappeared, turning out to be the lost son of a billionaire group chairman, inheriting the fortune and making a comeback.】
【The mysterious ritual, the 130-year-old man from Wanhua Village disappears once a year, each time returning as if ten years younger, scientists call it a miracle.】
【The great artist of the 21st century disappeared for seven days, and a twisted, strange painting appeared in his home, collectors offered a billion to buy it, only to find that the paint in the painting was made from the artist’s own flesh and blood.】
In one month, a total of more than four hundred people disappeared.
They either became ‘winners in life’ after disappearing, or died unnatural deaths after disappearing.
Once or twice is a coincidence, but what about more than four hundred times?
Yan Cheng has been paying attention to these things for a long time, perhaps he’s really gone mad.
But he can only believe.
There must be something in this world that hasn’t been revealed, something that can fulfill all desires.
He wants to live, he doesn’t want to die in such a pathetic way!
He must live!
Yan Cheng clenches his fist.
Suddenly, a very pleasant loli voice comes from his mind.
【Congratulations, human full of desires, you have been selected by 《Dungeon》!】
【As long as you can become a player, pass the dungeons, and earn points, you can fulfill all your needs, money, beauty, even mysterious powers beyond ordinary understanding.】
【May I ask, what is your desire?】
It’s here!
As expected…
A glint of light flashes in Yan Cheng’s eyes, his answer without a moment’s hesitation: “I want to live.”
【Then… are you willing to enter 《Dungeon》, to become a 《Dungeon》 player? Whether it’s fear or madness, nothing can separate you from the dungeon, only death can truly set you free.】
Yan Cheng curls his lips.
His life has already started counting down.
If he can live, even if it means a lifetime accompanied by fear and madness, so what?
“I am willing.”
…
【Contract established, judging player’s talent.】
【Player Yan Cheng is consistent in words and actions, with noble character, congratulations on awakening the talent: The Deceiver.】
【Talent confirmed, judging player’s attributes.】
【Player: The Deceiver—Yan Cheng】
【Talent: Your words and actions are consistent, with noble character, everyone will trust you, you never lie, you are the lie itself, when you use your talent, everything including trust and distrust will be calculated as probabilistic events.】
【Talent hidden information 1: For a certain basic event, your statement will enter judgment, the other party has a fifty percent chance to trust, if the judgment is successful, it will change the corresponding cognition and rules of the affected, if the judgment fails, it will be invalid.】
【Talent hidden information 2: For a certain absolute event, if your statement reaches a state of opposing events (either A or B), then regardless of the judgment’s success or failure, it will change the corresponding cognition and rules of the affected, receiving information feedback.】
【Strength: 0.5 (normal adult is 1)】
【Agility: 0.5 (normal adult is 1)】
【Intelligence: 1.7 (normal adult is 1)】
【Evaluation: Your stats are really rare, hurry up and enter the game to die!】
…
【Drawing a novice dungeon.】
【Congratulations on drawing the novice dungeon—single-player dungeon—F-level dungeon 《Incubation City》】
【《Incubation City》 introduction: This is the hometown of a century’s genius, this is a place countless people dream of, whether it’s the residents here or those who have walked into this town, they all become rare talents, social elites, they possess the most perfect brains in the world, the most perfect talents, those who walk out from here, famous around the world, and now, as an archaeologist, you are kindly invited by Incubation Town to explore their culture, to showcase their culture.】
【Novice protection reminder: The beautiful Incubation Town, once night falls, will fall into a mysterious silence, my dear player… if you want to survive, please don’t sleep too soundly, and don’t approach the darkness.】
【Dungeon completion deadline: 3 days.】
【Friendly reminder: Your dungeon process has been entered into the live broadcast room as per the process, you can know the real-time data through your brain, the system will comprehensively recommend your live broadcast to other players based on your dungeon difficulty, live broadcast stickiness, and other data, if you get stuck… satisfying the audience’s requests for rewards is also a good way to survive.】
【Now, the game begins!】
…
Yan Cheng feels a wave of dizziness, rubs his head, and is surprised to find.
His hair has returned?
He feels the jolting of sitting down, looks around in surprise.
The car window is covered with black film, unable to see what’s outside, what’s happening, or which road they’re taking.
The black film allows him to see his own face clearly even inside the car.
Thick hair, soft texture, scattered in front of his forehead.
He wears a pair of black thin-framed glasses, that familiar and delicate face still bears the signature smile, anyone who sees it can’t help but feel good about him.
Really scholarly.
This is how he looked before the diagnosis.
Long time no see.
He’s in a car now?
Seems like he can check the live broadcast situation.
A thought flashes through his mind.
【Live broadcast online viewers: 1 person.】
Seems like there’s also a live broadcast comment?
【Passerby A: A newbie in Incubation City? These stats… hahahahaha!】
【Passerby A forwarded your live broadcast room.】
【Passerby B entered your live broadcast room.】
【Passerby B: Hahaha damn, this is really the most pathetic stats I’ve ever seen, not even as good as a child, definitely doomed.】
【Passerby A: Incubation City is considered the hardest among novice dungeons, no one has ever achieved a HE ending, wonder how this newbie will die.】
【Passerby B: How else? Either get incubated or get killed, boring, whatever, let’s give him some rewards out of pity and leave.】
【Passerby B rewarded you with some points.】
【Passerby A rewarded you with some points.】
【Live broadcast online viewers: 0 people.】
Yan Cheng: “…”
Really, thank you.
Are his stats really that bad? They don’t seem too bad.
But what do they mean by getting incubated?
Just at this moment, without a sound.
A human face suddenly appears in Yan Cheng’s sight, empty eyes showing no emotion, a stiff face like a wooden sculpture, forcing out a strange smile.
“Teacher Yan, we’ve arrived at Incubation Town, you may get off the car now.”