DANMEI Reading List (RAW)

070. Welcome to the Nightmare Game

Translator: Sigma

Chapters: 135 + Extra

Tags: horror, game elements, unlucky MC, religious ML

Synopsis:

QiLeren had just cleared the bad ending of «The Nightmare Games» when his laptop died well before its time. His luck seemed to follow him as he was transported, along with the other passengers, to a hospital following an accident between his bus and a truck. Upon waking in a transfusion hall rather than a ward, QiLeren felt a familiar sense of dread as he took in the hospital that held no trace of other people...

Impressions: Was looking for more horror with game elements since I read My House of Horrors and stumbled into this. Let me just say, this is not like it!  Not one bit! Lol. If anything, this is closer to The Earth is Online. MC plays a horror game, gets into an accident and wakes up in a hospital. Its a typical escape type game, and he has some skills which is save-scumming or something cos when he played the horror game, he also fully utilized the save slots. Lol. However, MC's skill is not broken cos it has its own limits and drawbacks. Anyway, MC meets others at the hospital and begin their escape. After getting out, they find out that they're in a new world which is very similar to the horror game that MC played before dying (only MC has played this game) and one of them is actually a half-GM like guy (the other two is a guy with god-like luck and a berserker girl who slowly fade away on the novel). Anyway, due to MC's luck, he comes across a dead NPC and triggers a mission where he became a loli (lololol), well all the players who takes this mission would become girls cos it was a Witch Sacrifice mission. There, MC meets his goddess. (HAHAHAHA) which is our future ML. After fighting together through life and death, they are both attracted to each other and so sure that they are INLOVE. After finishing the mission, they agree to meet outside. Only when they meet, they find out that they're both men. ^^; MC is torn because he's a straight guy (oh) and ML is troubled cos he was brought up by the Church in that world, and he is part of a religious organization.  Actually ML is the one more affected by the two cos he even bought a ring for MC TwT. Laters, more unluckiness for MC, and he gets roped into going undercover to infiltrate some demon camp. He meets ML and ML secretly guards him and even cooperated with his mission. More happenings and they at least became friends now. Then MC does a main line mission with ML, the super lucky guy and their GM-like friend Su He. Long story short, GM friend is actually the villain BOSS!!! MC pretends to die (no, he REALLY dies but will get resurrected 7 days later) and this fools the villain BOSS so he leaves and then ML finds MC and ohmygawd!!!! ML!!!! T_T Actually, after getting along they never acknowledge their feelings for each other. MC wrote '7' but lost energy to write 'days' meaning he will resurrect after 7 days. In that world, '7' means 'I love you' so you can imagine how devastated ML was when he thought MC confessed his love to him before dying. Laters, ML quits the religious organization he's part of and acknowledges his love for MC. -THE END- This is part of a trilogy so I guess they'll get together in Book II. I sure hope so, for your safety author-sama *sharpens knife* 

Overall, this is pretty funny cos of MC's unluckiness and the way he would often meet ML in awkward circumstances. But it also has its dramas, especially ML's struggles cos of his love and his religion; and also MC's mentality cos he has to die every time he uses his save-scumming skill (MC's reaction when he saw so many tombstones with his name on it was kinda scary, like he was having a mental breakdown) The villain BOSS was also unexpected but not surprising, like when they made the big reveal, I kinda thought 'It makes sense'. This novel is free on jjwxc!! So I read it there~~ Still thinking whether I should jump into Book 2 now or read something fluffy first for a change of pace~~

The extra is a modern world AU where MC is an idol and ML is a transfer student, meh, didn't really like it~~