Let's give space a touch of Chinese horror!

Chapter 6 Holographic Horror Game

Jiang Yi strongly suspects that the idiotic system had its intelligence module destroyed when its system consciousness self-destructed.

Otherwise, why would it "helpfully" show her "vital signs" and allow her to pass the inspection when those people who entered the spaceship mistook her for a victim of space pirates and took her out for examination?

Because of the medical pod's monitoring system, if Jiang Yi were to "die" at this point, it might trigger a more detailed investigation.

In horror games, when a player dies, the remaining players often examine the deceased player's body with extra care.

In order to avoid being discovered as abnormal, Jiang Yi had no choice but to be "revived".

Now, the "helpful" system has run out of "power" because it helped her maintain her "vital signs" and is constantly urging her to "recharge".

What is energy?

Despite being incredibly annoyed by the system, Jiang Yi still patiently asked the idiotic system for help, thinking about the unknown gift.

"Human fear level," the system replied.

A completely unoriginal and unsurprising answer.

After all, this was what I collected in the previous horror games.

However, Jiang Yi now knew how the system had been awakened—it must have been "fed" by the fear value of the space pirates before their deaths.

Gaining human fear is not difficult for Jiang Yi.

The simplest way is to take direct action against humanity, just like instilling fear in space pirates.

But Jiangyi found it troublesome.

Just like in the dungeons before, Jiang Yi rarely went out to scare players. She was really too lazy to move. Even when she did make a move, it was only after the players found her where she was staying and attacked her first that she would take action.

Because she was just a wedding dress.

You can't expect a piece of clothing to be very lively and active.

So the thought that in the future, whenever this stupid system runs out of energy, she will have to go out and "work" herself—selecting "lucky" humans to intimidate and gain fear points—makes Jiang Yi feel an urge to throw this stupid system far away.

And there are ways to be lazy... well, there are ways.

For example, like in the original horror games, create an independent world where the system pulls humans in to "play games" continuously, draining their fear to keep the system running.

But as a victim of the horror game herself, Jiang Yi didn't want to go from being a dragon-slaying hero to becoming the dragon. Moreover, given the current state of the brain-dead system's constant alarms, she would likely have to bear the energy cost of building the independent world in the early stages.

This is so troublesome...

She sighed inwardly.

Is there any other way... that can solve the problem once and for all?

"How long will it take for her to wake up?"

The sound from outside the door interrupted Jiang Yi's thoughts. She closed her eyes and lay back down in the medical pod.

"It should be within the next day or two."

The team doctor, who had been busy these past few days, said while reviewing the data records, "She lost too much blood because the beam pierced her chest."

"However, all the data are improving now, and if things go well, he should wake up tonight."

"Really?" Luo Feng nodded. "Then I'll stay here and keep watch tonight..."

"This space pirate's death was too bizarre. If only we could get something out of her..."

"Don't get your hopes up too high. The injuries on her body were probably inflicted by the space pirates. Judging from the amount of bleeding, she was probably already unconscious when the space pirates attacked her..."

"Then how did she end up in the escape hibernation pod?"

"Uh..." This question really stumped the team medic. He straightened up and thought for a moment, finally offering a guess: "Perhaps the spaceship crash alarm woke her up, and she used her last breath to crawl inside?"

"It can't be that she killed the space pirates, shot herself, and then climbed into the escape pod to hibernate, right?" The team medic made what he thought was a humorous joke.

"By the way, have you found out her identity?"

"No." Luo Feng shook his head: "She has nothing on her to prove her identity." It's likely that when she was taken away by the space pirates, all communication devices, including her personal computer, were discarded.

"Ji Shu has also made contact with the passenger ship that was hijacked before."

"If the passenger ship can't find her identity either, we'll have to take a photo, report to the boss, and get approval to compare her against the database."

"Alright... I'm only responsible for saving your lives. You guys handle the rest." The team medic finished processing the data in the medical pod and turned to Luo Feng: "By the way, how's your mental strength lately?"

In the interstellar era, humanity evolved mental power to adapt to the cosmic environment, and mental power levels were established based on the amount of mental power each person could contain.

However, because of constant exposure to cosmic rays, human mental strength is constantly increasing; but because the mental strength that a person's mental sea can hold is limited, once a person's mental strength exceeds the upper limit that his mental sea can hold, various uncomfortable symptoms will appear, including but not limited to headaches, hallucinations, memory loss, etc., and in severe cases, it may even cause the body to overload and lead to organ failure.

Therefore, various forms of entertainment that consume mental energy have emerged.

However, the garbage planet they are currently on obviously doesn't have that much entertainment for Luo Feng and his group to enjoy.

Originally, Luo Feng and his group could have hoped to fight the space pirates and deplete their mental energy, but the group of space pirates were all killed before they even landed.

Consume opportunity -1

"Don't worry……"

Luo Feng waved his hand and pulled out a round object from behind him: "I brought a holographic game helmet."

Of all the ways to consume mental energy, holographic games consume it the most, the fastest, and the most conveniently.

After all, current technology has advanced to the point of being immersive, and life-or-death battles are most likely to stimulate the secretion of adrenaline, causing intense emotional fluctuations.

Research has found that the stronger a person's emotional fluctuations, the more mental energy they consume. Therefore, the most numerous games on the StarNet are currently holographic games featuring mech combat.

"A holographic game..." The team doctor nodded. "Will it be useful to you?"

Mech combat games might be intense and exciting for the average person, but for members of the First Legion who walk the line between life and death almost every day, they're rather... ordinary.

The effect was barely better than nothing.

"This…" Luo Feng excitedly opened a webpage on his personal terminal and showed it to the team doctor: "I recently discovered this!"

The team doctor leaned over for a peek: "A horror holographic game competition?"

Neither of them noticed that when they mentioned "horror holographic game," the girl lying motionless in the medical pod subtly turned her head slightly in their direction.

"Yes!" Luo Feng flipped through the webpage: "There's a game competition that's been launched recently, and all submissions are required to be horror-themed games."

"I've recently discovered quite a few interesting games in it."

"Look at this! This is currently the number one ranked game. It's a post-apocalyptic story. After the world was destroyed, some humans mutated into various terrifying monsters. The remaining humans (players) need to defeat these monsters."

"What's interesting is the weapon selection in this game. There are no mechs, pulse guns, or similar options. You can only fight with some outdated weapons, which makes it quite exciting to play."

"There are other games like fighting insectoids and alien creatures. The gameplay is the same, but the monsters look pretty disgusting. Some of them even gave me a fright. They can still kill some time..."

"Really?" The team doctor glanced at it. "So many people are participating in this competition... Oh, so the first place winner gets a million-dollar prize. Interesting. I'll download it and try it out later."

"Okay, you can go and rest after you're done with the checkup. I'll stay here and watch over things."

"Okay, wake me up when the person wakes up."

After a pleasant handover, one happily went home, while the other happily put on the holographic helmet.

Jiang Yi slowly opened her eyes.

Horror games...

She glanced discreetly at Luo Feng, who had already started playing the game.

A moment later, a dark red mist, invisible to the naked eye, slowly drifted out from the gaps in the medical pod and drifted leisurely toward Luo Feng.