Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

Fifty years ago, the "Truth Company" became one of the newest giant companies in the "City That Never Sleeps" through a new alchemical technology called "emotion conversion".

"Emotional energy" has gradually become the most commonly used energy in the entire "City That Never Sleeps".

At the beginning, the technology of "emotion conversion" was very simple and could only extract human "joy" and "sadness".

"Truth Company" built one emotion collector after another and provided a large number of entertainment products to the citizens of the "City That Never Sleeps".

Soon, this technology was changing with each passing day, and more and more "emotions" could be converted, and the extraction technology became more and more advanced.

The extracted "emotions" were found to be not only "fuel", but also various materials to be made into machinery and buildings.

The growing "Truth Company" also began to conduct more in-depth experiments that were not allowed before.

For example...

The development of the emotion called "fear" resulted in a substance called "Fear Oil".

This is the most "universal" kind of emotional creation. It is the most efficient as a fuel, and as a raw material it can be transformed into almost any "substance".

Even, it can disguise itself as "life".

It seems to confirm that sentence.

"Fear" is the most instinctive and original emotion in the depths of the human soul.

But it is also because of this that the difficulty of extracting and storing "fear" is the highest. If you are not careful, it will make people crazy or even die directly.

Moreover, these fears condensed into entities even have another function that other materials do not have...

It can "store souls".

Rather than "storing"... it is better to say "imprisonment".

The principle of this "fear oil" being able to disguise as life is that it can even perfectly simulate human consciousness.

Therefore, although the two other oligarchs of the "Never-Sleeping City" jointly suppressed the "Truth Company" for the first time, forcing the "Truth Company" to promise to give up the development of "Fear Oil".

But...

How can it really give up?

Such a tempting technology with infinite possibilities, the Truth Company will never give up.

So...

Outside the "Never-Sleeping City" and the Federation, in the endless "Great Wilderness", in those backward human gathering points, the "Truth Company" began to secretly build an experimental base.

"Winter Mountain" is one of them.

There were originally several human settlements nearby that relied on hunting for a living.

"Truth Company" has set its sights on them.

After all, most of the residents in the wilderness are stupid and short-sighted.

Therefore, several executives and A-level researchers of Truth Company built a complete set of "Fear Oil" conversion equipment under the Winter Mountain, which is always covered by wind and snow next to the town, and lied to the outside world that it was an ordinary emotion conversion equipment.

Then, they pretended to be nobles and deceived the residents of those towns that there was a precious resource called "Black Gold Oil" in the mountains, which could be exchanged for money.

The townspeople who believed the rumors entered the mountains, and were frightened by the "Snow Monster Rumors" spread in advance by the executives of "Truth Company" and the company's unique "Dream Making Instrument", which made the guys who entered the Winter Mountain to try their luck and search for treasures scared, provided a lot of "fear", and refined a lot of fear oil.

This is the plan called "Chat".

But...

Even those executives did not expect that although the raw material "Oil of Fear" is almost omnipotent, it has fatal flaws that no one has discovered before due to insufficient data.

It has a strong tendency to destroy life and devour souls!

Being able to "store souls" is not its characteristic, but a kind of "instinct" of it!

Although the Oil of Fear is not life, it is a creation derived from human emotions, and it has a law that is close to life activities.

The fear created by the initial "fright" only frightened those poor innocent townspeople and made them crazy.

But later, the amount of Oil of Fear continued to accumulate...the situation began to get out of control.

These "materialized" fears even began to affect the operation of the instrument itself.

Among those frightened people...

There began to be victims who died directly in their sleep and were frightened to death.

And the souls of those people were also taken away by the Oil of Fear-and the sight of the souls of these dead people appearing from time to time further deepened the fear of other people who entered Winter Mountain!

All these changes happened too quickly, almost in a few days.

As a result, the senior researchers and executives of the "Truth Company" did not react.

They only thought that all this was an "equipment failure" and were only thinking about "how to solve the failure" and making technical adjustments.

Therefore, this arrogance also made these "culprits" pay the price - in a dream, they also stayed forever in the base under the snow mountain.

But this "evil has evil retribution" cannot be called a good thing.

Because of the loss of maintenance personnel, the machine eventually broke down and leaked - all the emotions and the souls of the devoured people were assimilated, forming a "fear oil" with a certain consciousness and almost able to control the entire Winter Mountain - or, it can also be called a monster called "Chat".

For the purpose of self-proliferation, this "monster" constantly releases a part of the fear oil to the surface, maintaining the "scam" previously fabricated by the Truth Company and attracting innocent people to Winter Mountain.

It is very smart, and even allows a small number of people to leave safely with the oil of fear - even if there is no buyer, those small pieces of "black oil" that can allow people to survive a whole winter are enough to attract more people to come here.

After several years of this cycle, the oil of fear continues to grow.

Given time, I am afraid it will eventually grow to a completely uncontrollable point!

…

On the steps underground, Will Valetti, who was condensed by the oil of fear, and his soul and consciousness trapped inside the oil of fear, told Lin Yu and Forboluo the "truth" of Zhidong Mountain.

"It's really a story in line with the style of the 'Truth Company'," Forboluo sighed, "No wonder we didn't see any real monsters along the way."

Lin Yu also nodded slightly.

In this way, the 'scam' and 'liar' that the upgrade task wants you to find...

should correspond to the plan called 'Chat' and the entire "Truth Company".

But...

Lin Yu still has questions.

He looked at Will Valeti in front of him and asked.

"Why did you tell us all this and lead me here?"

Will Valeti looked at Lin Yu and spoke with a burning gaze.

"I said... you are very smart, the smartest person I have ever seen in the Winter Mountain."

"So, I think you have a chance to 'end' all this!"