Seeing the contents of these documents, Chen Mo and Dai Minghan also felt a chill. Though they hadn't experienced it firsthand, they could sense the panic of the staff member who had written these records.
In other words, this cursed game hadn't just appeared now—it had shown anomalies as early as seven years ago, during its development phase, causing the continuous deaths of the development team. It was likely that the reason Rinz Company disbanded the project team and shut down the company was also related to this!
A cursed game that had caused so many deaths during development—once released, what terrifying consequences would it bring!
However, these documents only recorded the abnormal occurrences during the game's development; they didn't explain the source of the curse in this horror game!
That meant the participants were still at a loss!
For Chen Mo, it felt like he had many clues in his hands, but they were all jumbled up, like scattered beads on the floor, lacking a thread to string them together.
Although the documents had unraveled the mystery of Rinz Company's sudden closure seven years ago, they didn't seem to help their current situation. Just then, a strange sound suddenly rang out in the room.
It was the phone!
From Li Kai's phone, the distorted electronic music sounded again. As the music played, everyone in the room's faces changed drastically, especially Li Kai's, which turned deathly pale in an instant.
This electronic music was the precursor to the cursed game starting. Li Kai wouldn't forget that he was the next participant chosen by the cursed game, and this time, the distortion of the game's music was even more bizarre than before!
As the music played, the phone screen automatically lit up. However, aside from the game running automatically on the phone, no other anomalies seemed to appear around them for now.
After a few seconds, Li Kai finally gritted his teeth and reached out to pick up the cursed phone from the table. On the game screen, new story content had indeed appeared.
This time, the scene was also inside a house, but the four people in the house were all wearing what looked like work uniforms. And in front of them appeared... computers?
What was going on?
Soon, at the bottom of the screen, the pixelated character controlled by Li Kai appeared again, conversing one by one with the four people in the house. Li Kai was astonished to discover that these four people were all game developers mentioned in the programmer's logs!
"Though it's hard to accept, I think... we might..." "Already be dead." "Yes, we died a long time ago and were dragged into this strange world. If the curse isn't broken, our souls will be trapped here forever." "Excuse me, are you a warrior from the outside? Can you help us... escape from this place?" "If so, we'll tell you a secret." "Hidden in this game is a 'Demon King.' We are all souls captured into this world by the Demon King. Any sacrifice chosen by the Demon King will absolutely be killed by this game!" "This is the ancient legend of this village: by offering sacrifices to the Demon King, you can prevent hell from descending, sparing the village from being swallowed by darkness." "But not everyone has failed to escape..." "Find that person, and maybe there's a way to break this cycle of the curse." "Right, what was that person's name?" "Yeah... someone we worked with. What was their name? Why can't we remember?" "Is it because we've been dead for too long?"
Seeing this, everyone felt extremely anxious. This person was undoubtedly an important clue given by the story, but the game's plot was progressing painfully slowly, dragging on hesitantly!
"Ah, I remember!" Just then, one of the staff members suddenly jumped up. "That person's name is..." "Zhang... Yiming." "Yes, that's the name... Great, such an important memory finally came back." "Warriors, farewell like this!"
Zhang Yiming!
This segment of the game's story was definitely an important hint from the narrative to the participants, triggered after investigating Rinz Company!
According to the story's hint, without a doubt, this Zhang Yiming had participated in the development of the cursed game and was a survivor of the "incident" seven years ago.
Now that they had a name, Ye Sheng immediately opened his computer and began searching with that name as a keyword. Chen Mo had initially thought they'd need to use fake credentials to enter the police station and investigate the bizarre deaths from back then, but Ye Sheng's search quickly yielded results.
Among the search results, though there were several people named Zhang Yiming, only one quickly caught the participants' attention.
This Zhang Yiming was listed as the head of a tech company called Dayang Software. This company not only specialized in developing mobile games but was also established seven years ago.
That is, right after Rinz Company shut down!
Chen Mo absolutely wouldn't believe there was no connection.
Thinking differently, could it be that this Zhang Yiming survived the incident seven years ago and used the resources at hand to start a new game company?
In other words, this Zhang Yiming might be the only living witness to what happened seven years ago!
"He must know something about this cursed game..."
Chen Mo didn't know how he had escaped the curse's attack and survived the incident seven years ago, but for the participants, this was an important lead!
"Let's go! Find this Zhang Yiming!"
A new clue had finally emerged, a huge boost for the participants stuck in their investigation. But for Chen Mo, Dai Minghan, and the others, it also put them on high alert.
Because in this horror story world, obtaining important clues often coincided with the moment when supernatural forces struck with deadly intent!
"Let's go, get out of here!"
Chen Mo made a quick decision, shut down the computer, and stood up to head outside.
Outside, the sun was blazing. Though it was autumn, the weather was crisp and clear, making it feel as if all the ghosts and curses were just Chen Mo's imagination.
However, the anticipated attack from the ghostly entities didn't happen. Perhaps the participants were still in the story's buffer period.
"Take this chance to find Zhang Yiming quickly! I have a feeling this person is a key figure in the story," Ye Sheng said, opening his phone. Since leaving the room, he had kept the search page open, looking up the address of the other's company!