Chapter 1 A Glimmer of Hope

Shen Wei looked around, finding nothing out of the ordinary, but a chill still rose from the bottom of his heart, giving him goosebumps all over!

"This house really is haunted. I can't delay; I have to find a way out of here..."

With this thought, Shen Wei quietly sneaked into his parents' room!

"Young man, are you sure you don't want to reconsider? The second simulation is really half price!"

Shen Wei's eerie right hand was raised in the air, pulling Shen Wei's body, as if it wouldn't let him open his parents' bedroom door without another death simulation.

Seeing his eerie right hand so insistent, Shen Wei frowned. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Alright, then, just one more simulation..."

"Heh heh, young man, you're very sensible. I like doing business with smart people. Take a look at my right hand..."

My name is Shen Wei, and I am in the midst of a rule anomaly. Today, I discovered that my parents' bedroom may be hiding some secrets, so I decided to investigate.

Don't let my poor, ugly, penniless appearance fool you; I'm very clever.

I turned sideways and opened the door, effectively preventing anything strange from ambushing me.

But it turned out to be unnecessary; there was nothing scary in the bedroom.

I cautiously walked into the bedroom and searched the room thoroughly.

Hard work pays off; I really found a strange book and some medical reports under the bed!

I had just taken them out and looked at them for a while when I suddenly felt a chill behind me.

I turned around and saw my parents looking at me with eerie smiles. They successively used Brain-Splitting Fist, Descendant-Erasing Kick, and other inhuman moves on me. After beating me half to death, they shamefully bound me with rope techniques learned from Dongying.

Then, the two of them took me into the basement, and then I died, dying very miserably.

Simulation complete, payment collected. With a flash of white light, half a year of Shen Wei's life was drawn by his eerie right hand.

The voice of Shen Wei's terrifying right hand came to an abrupt halt, and he himself suddenly broke free from the illusion! Then, he gasped for breath, as if death had caused great damage to his mind.

"Damn it, as soon as I open the bedroom door, my parents will immediately notice and come back, take me, who knows the secret, back to the basement, and kill me."

Shen Wei said with lingering fear.

"Due to the rules, I can't tell you too much. If you want to live, you still have to rely on your own analysis and reasoning. This daddy has already done his utmost..."

Shen Wei's eerie right hand stuffed itself into his pocket, looking like it was ready to sleep.

"You bastard, get out of here, simulate if you're going to simulate, why are you still attacking me personally, what do you mean by poor, ugly, and penniless, give me a reasonable explanation..."

Shen Wei angrily tried to pull out his right hand, but his right hand was like it was welded in his pocket, no matter how he pulled, he couldn't get it out.

"What I'm saying is the truth, what can you do to me? Pukai..."

The dark and eerie right hand looked very arrogant. But Shen Wei couldn't do anything about it, and his teeth itched with anger.

Looking at the bedroom door in front of him, Shen Wei fell into hesitation.

He wanted to go in to look for clues, but going in would definitely be dangerous.

"To go in or not to go in? To be or not to be, that is the question..."

Shen Wei hesitated for a long time and finally decided to go in!

"According to the previous death simulation, it takes about 3-4 minutes for my parents to notice someone entering the bedroom, return home, and block me. As long as I get the information I need during this time, then I can retreat safely, crack this rule anomaly, find a way out, and greatly increase my chances of escaping..."

With this thought, Shen Wei mustered his courage, opened the bedroom door, and quickly rushed in, heading straight for the bottom of the bed. In an extremely hidden place under the bed, he took out a shoebox, which contained many things, photos, medical reports, and a strange book.

Shen Wei took out his phone and quickly took pictures, calculating the time in his mind. There were too many pages in the book to photograph them all. Helpless, he had to photograph only a part of it. Time was running out, so he quickly put everything back in its place, ran out of his parents' bedroom, and returned to his own room.

As soon as he closed the door, he heard a slight movement at his own front door. Then, a faint footstep headed straight for his parents' bedroom. Shen Wei quietly opened a crack in his bedroom door, and saw his parents hurriedly returning to their room.

After a moment, Shen Wei's parents came out with strange expressions, and then headed straight for Shen Wei's bedroom. Shen Wei hurriedly locked his bedroom door and blocked it with a cabinet.

"Did you enter our room? Didn't we tell you not to enter our room? Are you taking my words as wind?"

His father's furious voice sounded outside the door, and he pounded on the bedroom door with his fists.

"I didn't go in! I heard a noise in your bedroom, like a mouse got in. I just touched the doorknob and you came back..."

Shen Wei thought for a moment and then argued.

Hearing Shen Wei's explanation, the knocking on the door stopped...

"Son, didn't get scared, did you! Your father's been in a bad mood these past few days, his words might have been a bit harsh, don't take it to heart. We have something to do, so we're leaving first, take care of yourself at home..."

His mother's gentle voice sounded outside the door. Shen Wei did not answer, and the footsteps outside the bedroom door gradually faded away.

"Stinky brat, what did you mean by your answer just now?"

Shen Wei's eerie right hand asked with interest.

Shen Wei said in a low voice: "I suspect that besides me and my parents, there is someone else in this house..."

"Who?"

"Grandpa."

"Rule One says there is no grandpa in this house, that grandpa doesn't exist, I think that's incorrect. Although I don't know if he's dead or alive, he must be in this house, and he can move around during the day, but there are restrictions..."

"Heh, you little rascal, you're quite cunning..."

"Heh, of course, can't compare to you old schemer..."

Shen Wei and his eerie right hand sprayed each other for a while, then he ignored it. Instead, he began to check the photos he had taken on his phone.

Shen Wei looked through the photos of the medical reports and found that everyone in the family had a medical report! The test results were somewhat beyond his expectations; everyone in the family suffered from severe congenital heart disease, and the test reports showed that they were unlikely to live past the age of 35, as if it were some kind of curse!