"Crap, could this be a scene from the new game!?"
"This really isn't a horror game, is it?" Ben, lying in the VR game pod, shivered.
The sky was a dull gray, the moon and stars hidden by countless dark clouds, and white, snowflake-like things danced in the air.
In the darkness, a huge monster stood in the distance, its entire body made of fur and bones, but it vanished in the next moment.
The distant streets were full of strangeness, with dim streetlights, statues holding candles, and a church and clock tower in the distance.
The dark clouds in the sky slowly dissipated, and a blood-red moon hung low.
At the same time, the bells of the church clock tower in the distance rang.
This was a strange small town. Ben was quite knowledgeable. The architectural style of the entire town was Victorian, but it was mixed with Gothic features.
In the darkness, illuminated by the blood moon and dim lights, it looked mysterious and eerie.
Countless towering spires and silver snowflakes in the night sky looked strange and ethereal.
'Gulp...' Ben silently swallowed, and for a moment he wanted to log out.
This environment, these scenes, the feeling is too strong!
But even though he felt scared, his curiosity about Nebula Games' new work drove Ben to explore.
Very restricting, Ben found that he could only do one thing here, and that was to move forward.
Like a controlled puppet, like Desmond in "Assassin's Creed" when he was controlled by Juno and stabbed Daisy to death.
At that time, the player also had no way to control their character, only to make him move forward.
Carefully controlling his in-game self to move forward, the entire appearance of the town was revealed before his eyes.
The spires on the roofs and the fences everywhere, faintly exuded a fierce aura in the darkness, exquisite yet chaotic and ruined.
A few dim streetlights illuminated the messy streets, which looked like a mess.
An empty stroller was abandoned in the middle of the street.
The distant bells rang.
Walking through a street corner, he came to a place in the center of town that resembled a square. Before him was a crowded mass of people, but everyone was like a walking corpse.
In addition, in the streets and alleys, there were groups of people holding torches, sickles, and other weapons, with two or three bloody and crazy dogs, as if patrolling the streets and alleys, the atmosphere was dull and oppressive.
Just looking at it, Ben felt his hair stand on end.
He continued forward, pushed open a door, and a old and mysterious voice sounded in his ears.
'Dear friend... be careful, this blood is evil!'
'And when night falls, the hunters will return...'
As the words fell, Ben suddenly noticed that the camera began to slowly zoom out from the original first-person perspective.
At this time, he saw his character, whose clothing was not what he had worn on the island.
A black trench coat with black and red bloodstains, a tricorn hat on his head, a shotgun in one hand, and a meat cleaver in the other.
The town's gate was pushed open, and the camera stretched into the distance.
A monster burning on a cross, a woman praying in front of a tombstone, the crying of infants, and the tolling of bells.
With another toll of the bells, the images before Ben's eyes gradually blurred.
When they became clear again, he found himself lying in a Zack hospital bed.
Above his head was a blood transfusion bottle, the dirty bottle filled with yellow liquid, and the outside of the bottle was covered with solidified blood, dust, and scratches.
This seemed to be a hospital clinic?
'Yharnam... this is the home of the blood ritual. All you have to do is uncover its mysteries, but where should an outsider like you begin?'
'It's simple, just inject yourself with some Yharnam blood too.'
'No matter what happens, you will only think of it as a small nightmare.'
A drop of bright red blood fell from the top of the transfusion bottle, mixing with the yellow liquid.
The bright red blood slowly spread out, and in this yellow liquid, the color of the blood gradually became deep.
'Long ago, Old Yharnam was ravaged by a beastly plague.'
'They were left to rot until they died, and now the only sound that can be heard there is the roar of beasts.'
With the voice-over, Ben saw scenes of 'hallucinations'.
Werewolf-like beasts, who howled hideously at night.
But the next moment a hunter with a shotgun in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other appeared from the darkness, wielding their weapons to cut off the beast's head.
'We are filled with a hunger for blood. It fills us with satisfaction and soothes our fears.'
'But, be aware of the weakness of the human will. This blood makes us human, it makes us transcend humanity, but it also makes us no longer human!'
Crowds of people wandering in Yharnam, burned bones, and churches filled with incense, as the bells rang out, a figure in dark shadows roared like a beast.
An indescribable monster appeared under the moon, then suddenly disappeared.
The next moment, the scene returned to Yharnam.
A werewolf's claws pierced the hunter's chest.
The bloodthirsty monster grabbed the hunter like a rag doll and threw him aside.
The image before Ben's eyes also fell into darkness, and then what appeared before him was a cemetery-like graveyard.
Not far away under the moon was a European-style church building, and in front of the steps stood a tall woman wearing Gothic clothing.
'Goodbye... good hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.'
As the voice fell, before Ben could figure out what was going on, he in the game knelt on one knee in front of a tombstone and slowly closed his eyes.
What appeared before him next was a series of battle scenes.
Burning flames, rotting corpses, and that eerie and strange graveyard.
The hunter used various weapons to slaughter countless strange monsters.
The black trench coat gradually turned scarlet red as the hunter killed monsters.
Finally, countless hunters slowly disappeared, leaving only the last hunter, whose face could not be seen clearly, with his back to the hunter in the moonlight, said in a hoarse voice.
'Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt!'
......
Ben, back in the Nebula world, had not yet recovered.
Obviously, this thing was a promotional video for him to actually experience.
It was just made into a VR theme mode.
Also, one thing he could be sure of.
That is, this may not be a horror game after all, because no horror game would be so violent, with hunters slaughtering monsters throughout.
If viewed in terms of presentation, this is undoubtedly a fun game.
(End of chapter)
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