An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits

Volume 1. Let the Game Begin

Inside the decaying, deathly silent building…

In the hallway where the lights couldn’t illuminate beyond five meters, the dim and lonely atmosphere kept gnawing at that line in my nerves.

At this moment, danger had only just passed, and this sudden ‘clang’ nearly scared me into screaming.

My hand, almost instinctively, moved to my watch.

But… just as I was about to press the time pause switch on the watch, I suddenly saw clearly… the figure in front of me.

“Is that… a person?”

Looking at the vague silhouette, I knew… that strange thing couldn’t be clearly seen.

In other words, the shadow in front of me—was it a person?

“Are you also someone dragged into this f***ing game?”

Before I could say anything, the figure slowly stepped out of the shadows.

The moment I saw his face and heard his voice, I immediately relaxed.

A person… it really was a person.

He looked like a young man, around eighteen or nineteen years old.

There was a faint smile on his face.

He was quite good-looking.

Hmm… although not as handsome as I used to be, he could just barely be considered a pretty boy.

“So it really is a person… whew, you nearly scared me to death.”

Looking at this young man in front of me, I slowly lowered my hand.

He looked at me curiously.

“You were also hospitalized here before getting dragged into this?”

“You too??”

I hesitated for a moment and didn’t reveal my identity as a player.

After all, I didn’t know whether this person was a novice player or just a bystander.

“Ah… I don’t know why, but I suddenly got a message. After I finished reading it, the world turned like this. At first, I didn’t take it seriously. I never imagined such bizarre things would really happen. Oh right… that scream just now, was that you?”

The scream?

Oh… was that the sound I heard on the nineteenth floor?

“It wasn’t me. It was probably someone who got caught.”

I shook my head.

“Caught? Did you see what it was?”

The boy looked a bit curious.

“No, I don’t know what that thing is either. I just know it’s really dangerous… you…”

At that point, I suddenly hesitated.

I glanced at the boy.

He was indeed wearing a hospital gown, but his limbs didn’t seem injured at all.

Was it something internal?

Just as I was thinking that, he suddenly reached out toward me.

“I’m Fang Zheng. What’s your name?”

I hesitated for a moment.

Although I didn’t want to chat in this place, the other party was being so polite, I couldn’t really refuse.

“Zhang… Liu Yunyan.”

I shook his hand briefly and quickly pulled mine back, then looked around again.

“Fang Zheng, this might sound a little rude, but now really isn’t the time to chat. That thing is still searching the building for players. If we get caught, we’re dead. I think we should take this chance while it’s gone and get downstairs fast.”

Even though I knew my chances of surviving downstairs were slim, I still couldn’t figure out the loopholes in the rules, so I had no choice but to guess as I went.

“You’re right. We should get going.”

Fang Zheng looked at me, smiled, and nodded.

For some reason… I felt like his smile was too fake.

“Yeah, let’s go…”

Now wasn’t the time to suspect others—getting downstairs was more important.

With that in mind, I quickly turned around to go downstairs.

But the moment I turned, I moved my left leg, and the pain made me suck in a sharp breath.

“Hiss! Ugh!”

“What’s wrong? Are you hurt?”

Fang Zheng’s voice sounded a bit anxious.

I gave him a strange look—why was he so concerned about me when we were complete strangers?

“It’s nothing… I can still walk.”

I gritted my teeth, shook my head, and turned to go.

“I’ll support you…”

Before I could refuse, he stepped forward and grabbed my left arm.

Even though my leg hurt like hell, I instinctively wanted to pull away.

Just as I was about to do so, I suddenly felt a lightness on my wrist.

Then, I heard a ‘click’ in my ear.

The watch strap that had been tightly fastened suddenly came loose!!

“You!”

I froze.

Instinctively, I tried to grab the watch he’d pulled off, but… my current body was that of a small girl, only fifteen years old.

Against an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old man in his prime, I was far weaker.

And… this guy didn’t hesitate to play dirty.

He suddenly raised his foot and kicked my left leg!!

“Ugh!!!”

My already fractured leg took the hit, and the excruciating pain made my vision go black and my ears ring.

Before I could even cry out, a large hand clamped down over my mouth.

“Mmm! Mmm!!”

“If you don’t want to die, shut up!!!”

Fang Zheng’s face had changed… becoming so vicious, his eyes bloodshot, and an evil smile hung at the corner of his mouth.

“Who would've thought… I’d still get this kind of blessing in a place like this. You’re actually pretty good-looking…”

“Mmm! Mmm!!”

I instinctively tried to resist, but with my broken leg getting kicked again, the pain almost knocked me out.

At the same time, his hand suddenly grabbed my neck.

I felt myself gasping for breath.

The intense pressure on my throat made me instinctively struggle.

WTF!!

What are you trying to do!!

But I could only scream that in my heart—I couldn’t break free from this man’s strength.

In this moment, I deeply missed the time when I was still a man…

Recently, I hadn’t really thought much about my new identity, but now… I was painfully aware of a woman’s weakness.

I wanted to resist, but the pain in my left leg stopped me again and again.

Fang Zheng kept dragging me backwards step by step, completely ignoring my broken leg.

He just dragged me along the ground.

My left leg, struggling all the while, had completely twisted, the knee no longer touching the floor—my calf pressed flat against the ground.

The pain drained every ounce of strength from my body, and I was helplessly dragged along by this man.

“Don’t worry, it won’t take long… The creature this time doesn’t check under tables or beds. Even if we make a bit of noise, it won’t catch us. Judging by your reaction, you probably haven’t been through this yet… hehehe~ Don’t worry, it’ll feel good…”

“Mmm! Mmm!!”

“Shhh~ Don’t make a sound~ Be careful or that monster will find us. Don’t worry. Once I’m done, I’ll let you meet that freak. Of course… I’m only doing this to survive~ Hehehe~~”

Fang Zheng’s disgusting, muffled laughter kept echoing in my ears.

“But seriously, I really didn’t expect it… A player with no defenses like you actually managed to get the World Watch… Three hundred points. I’ve been through several games, but my score’s never gone over a hundred. Tsk tsk… what a pity. If your leg weren’t injured, maybe you really could’ve survived.”

“Mmm!!!”

Struggling with all my might, I was still dragged into a hospital ward by him.

What should I do!

What should I do!

If this goes on any further, it’ll turn into an extra chapter, and it’ll get banned!

Ah!

No… I’ll get violated!!

What should I do… the watch was snatched away by him.

If I had the time pause function, maybe I could escape.

But now, how do I get away??

Escape?

No… wait, is he alive?

I…

In almost an instant, an idea popped into my head.

Although… I had never tested it on someone who was awake before…

I crossed my arms over my chest, protecting my vital areas as best I could, and slowly closed my eyes.

In my ears, his voice still echoed.

“Hehe~ that’s more like it. Giving up resistance—it’ll feel really good. Don’t worry, it won’t take long, five minutes and we’re done.”

F*** you!

Go to hell, you son of a—!!

‘Buzz!!!’

Suddenly, everything around me fell silent.

This process of separating from my body—I had practiced it thoroughly during the ten days of recovering in the hospital.

After all, I was stuck on the hospital bed with nothing to do besides gaming, so this became a form of entertainment.

At least in my evil spirit form, I could leave the building and go out to play.

In an instant, I felt my body lighten.

When I opened my eyes again, I had already become an evil spirit, detached from my flesh.

Perhaps it was due to being in an interdimensional state, or perhaps something else entirely, but at this moment, I felt the murderous urge within my evil spirit form nearly shattering my sanity!

Without a moment of hesitation, I immediately reached out and grabbed Fang Zheng’s head.

The moment my pitch-black claws clutched his skull, his whole body froze.

Then, his face twisted into sheer terror, his mouth opening and twitching constantly, but he couldn’t utter a single word.

At the same time… in that moment, it was as if he saw me…

That’s right, the moment I grasped his soul, his gaze focused directly on me.

“You… can… see… me…”

It wasn’t that I was deliberately trying to act creepy—it was simply that, in soul form, making a human sound was extremely difficult.

My voice at that moment became bizarrely distorted, simultaneously deep and hoarse yet shrill and piercing.

The two tones merged into a sickening sound that made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

This was a result I had discovered over the past ten days: whenever I made a sound in this state, anyone within several meters would experience intense terror, along with headaches and nausea.

That sensation seemed imprinted into the soul—like a lower-level life form encountering a superior being, a kind of fear passed down through the bloodline.

Even without hearing the sound, they would still be overwhelmed by that presence.

“No… don’t… let… let me go… let…”

Perhaps because he had been through several games, this man had a slight resistance to such overwhelming terror.

But… let you go?

Why the hell didn’t you think of letting me go just now!?

Faced with his begging, I didn’t hesitate at all—I went in for the feast!

Without the slightest pause, my black claws gripped tightly and yanked his soul right out.

And in that moment… I saw my own appearance reflected in the focus of his pupils.