The sound of someone tapping on a keyboard.

[Setting:Xu Fang, an average 19-year-old freshman, somewhat intelligent, with a dull, nerdy personality. Maintains a minimum of social interaction, has a selfish side and a kind side. Once wrote a multi-million word novel in high school, for which he almost abandoned his studies. He deeply hates his past self and hopes for a good future.]

(sneer)

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"Well..."

Oufang was shaken awake by the top bunk.

The top bunkmate was Xu Fang's roommate, Liu Shuo, who, as his name implies, was very strong, a fat man of over 100kg. Every time he turned over, there was a shaking of the ground, making Xu Fang suffer. He was a little envious of Luo Xiaoming in the neighboring bunk.

Wang Yusheng, the bunk mate of Luo Xiaoming, always stays out at night, and he can enjoy his bed all by himself.

The reality always deviates from the fantasy. I thought it was a four-person dormitory with a bed and a table, but when I arrived, I found it was a six-person dormitory with a bunk bed, and the dormitory was simple and pitifully small. It was hard for Xu Fang, who was used to living at home. Thinking about himself in high school and now ......

Xu Fang sighed and lost his sleep.

The dorm room was quiet, with the occasional snore from the fat man. It was clear that the roommates were asleep.

Looking up at the window, it was pitch black. Checking the time on my phone, it's 2:43pm, still the middle of the night.

Xu Fang fumed for a while, trying to sleep but finding it impossible. So he silently yanked out his laptop from under his pillow, plugged in his headphones, and turned it on.

Bored, nothing to do anyway, so let's watch a drama. Maybe that was just what he needed to do for an out-of-touch nerd like him.

Opening 360 browser, a page pops up:

The page can't be opened!

Xu Fang drifted off, not yet connected to WiFi, and just tapped the bottom right corner, but the page refreshed itself and then automatically loaded a web page.

What's going on?

How can this open a web page again when it's clearly not connected to the internet? Wait ...... this page? ......

It wasn't the familiar 360 navigation page that automatically loaded, but a strange page he'd never seen before. The page was rudimentary, like it was made by a novice who had just started web programming for a few days. It was brown overall, with a dark purple hue around the edges, and monotonous overall, with no aesthetic appeal. There are no pictures, and there's no portal. There's a big line in the middle:

[Welcome to Horror Novel Web]!

Xu Fang shook his head, the user experience of 360 browser is getting worse and worse, just forcing not to let Baidu search, how come such a thing popped up just after opening.

He thought, and moved his mouse to the top right corner.

Click, click, click again ......

Hey? How come the page doesn't close? The mouse is broken? No ah, the computer is stuck? It doesn't look like it either. ......

Is it possible that the little island movie I downloaded a few days ago has a virus?

While checking for viruses, he looked again and again at the internet connection and confirmed that it was indeed not connected. The webpage is a strange one, so how did this one come out? What else is HorrorNovel.com, such a bad name ......

Guess this virus was implanted before?

Oufang spat, and clicked on the fork-unable HorrorNovel.com again, scrolling down to see what else was there.

[Hello! When you see this page, it proves that you are already the chosen one.] The black Microsoft font shimmers with an eerie light against the brown background, and I don't know if the glow effect has been added. [You have the opportunity to achieve everything you want by becoming an author on this site ......]

Seeing this, Xu Fang was basically convinced that this was a scammer, right, planting a virus on his computer and then using some cheap tricks to trick people to get their bank card numbers. There are more and more internet scams these days, and they are starting to attack people's computers with viruses, which is really abominable. He is not a fool, of course he will not fall for it.

The antivirus software didn't find anything different, and Xu Fang was used to it. Anyway, this kind of software is not very reliable, it's not a virus that messes up the alerts, the virus comes instead nothing moves. Looks like we'll have to redo the system tomorrow.

There was no Internet connection anyway, so Xu Fang went on to the next page to see what it was trying to do.

[On this site, you can be as creative as you want to be. The site does not prohibit gore, pornography, or reactionary content. All content is free for you to play. If your novel is good enough, you can get everything you want, both virtual and real. It will satisfy all your desires if you are serious about your creation. ]

Such a cheap self-promotion that Xu Fang is too lazy to spit it out. Who in their right mind would believe this stuff. It's ridiculous, I want to be richer than Jack Ma, can you satisfy me? ......

Strangely enough, this next "intimidating novel website

It is strange that this next "Horror Novel Web" didn't turn out to be asking for bank card numbers and passwords and so on, but instead introduced itself in more detail.

[......Writing a novel requires more than 3,000 words per chapter and less than 10,000 words.

No too many typos or sick sentences, no empty content, no plagiarism, no real information about the author himself/herself.

Chapters should not be titled.

Submissions will take a certain amount of time to review, ranging from a few minutes to a few days. You cannot resubmit during the review period, but you can revise and resubmit. If it does not pass, it will be returned.

After updating more than 50,000 words, a setting bar will appear at the bottom of each chapter, which allows you to add settings to "anything". The settings bar is the biggest reward for authors, and they can use it to get anything they want.

The settings bar can also be left blank.

Once the submission is successful, the content in the settings field will definitely materialize.

The more active the author is in updating, the better the treatment.

The author will be greatly rewarded when the work is finished. ]

Tsk, that's a good way to put it. Xu Fang continued to scroll down, but the next font became all blood red and looked alarming.

[Caution, please strictly abide by the following ten rules! ]

[1. Authors are prohibited from revealing all information about themselves in their work.]

[2. Once a submission is successful, it can never be revised again].

[3. After reaching 50,000 words, reader ratings, points store and settings bar will be enabled.

Reader ratings determine the author's points earnings.

The settings field is limited to one sentence, with unlimited content. It must not exceed 20 font volume and must not be out of the world's rules, otherwise it will not work.

Note: The reader cannot see the content of the setting field. ]

[4. Your initial points are 100, and you will die a bizarre death when your points fall below 0].

[5. In case of plagiarism, empty content, unreasonable plot, too many sick sentences and typos, unreasonable content in the setting column, attempts to interact with readers, revealing illegal information, etc., the website will return the manuscript and deduct certain points. ]

Please revise your manuscript according to the reason for the rejection and resubmit it. If a single chapter is returned more than 3 times, bizarre phenomena will occur around the author].

[6. Adding the words "End of book / End of whole book" at the end of the chapter will be considered as officially finished. It is up to the reader to decide whether it is a bad ending or not. ]

[7. Consulting our customer service will cost you some points or a price. ]

[8. Do not reveal the existence of this website, otherwise bizarre phenomena will happen around the author].

[9. There is no interaction between author and author, author and reader in this website. The final score of the work is all assessed by the readers. The website updates the big data once a day at 0:00.]

[10. Once you start writing a novel, you cannot stop your update!

The site does not regularly call for update, so no delays!

There must be a complete story at the end, no loose ends!

Authors who violate this rule will die a bizarre death. ]

[Does the author start working on it?

Yes                 No

Note: By selecting "Yes", you will officially become an author of Horror Novel Web. If you choose "No", this site will disappear and never appear in front of you. ]

Here's the last page, with the "Yes" and "No " options. Xu Fang can not help but laugh after reading, this liar brain hole is big enough, bluffing people still a set, but also bizarre death, you think this is writing a horror novel? Besides, writing a novel is the most abhorrent thing to him, he would rather go to work in the construction site than write a novel. The painful experience has taught him enough lessons.

According to this pattern, whether he clicked "yes" or "no", the result would be the same, and it was time for the scammers to show their true colors, right? The next step is to reveal the real face of the scammer, right? Anyway, there is no network, and there is no fear of revealing personal information, at most formatting a disk. He wanted to see what else was interesting next.

So Xu Fang moved his mouse over to "yes" and clicked it.

[Congratulations on becoming an author of Intimidating Fiction! ]

With a line of big red letters appearing, in a flash, the picture changes dramatically!

All the words on the computer screen quickly distorted then swept into pitch blackness, and a cold sensation crawled up his neck and into his head, as if a poisonous snake had attached itself to his body. The only thing that happened to him was the blue desktop of Win7.

That was an illusion just now, right? What a terrible feeling, always feel as if I was being watched by something bad ...... Xu Fang touched his forehead and surprisingly broke out in some cold sweat. He opened the 360 browser again to look for the website he just visited, but he could no longer find it, not even the history.

Whether this was a scam or a prank or whatever Xu Fang didn't want to care anymore, anyway he was very uncomfortable by the web page he just saw.

No matter what, this computer will have to be reinstalled. Xu Fang looked at the d-drive disk with regret. It's a pity that I have dozens of gigabytes of Japanese study materials.

Turning off the computer, Xu Fang laid down again.

The night, silent again.