An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits

Volume 1. Let the Game Begin

I ignored the time, turned my head to look at the point exchange options, scrolled to the “World Watch” section, and without hesitation, clicked confirm.

I originally thought the watch would suddenly appear in front of me on the table, or maybe fly out from my phone, but… I was wrong.

A hand covered in blood suddenly appeared from the void!

It slowly reached out in front of me, the arm as pale as a corpse, and blood dripped down little by little from above, sliding along the arm until it reached the fingertips, dripping onto the solid wooden table with a soft tapping sound.

And on the wrist of that pale arm, there was… a watch.

"This… f***, don’t tell me I’m supposed to take it off myself?"

Looking at the hand stretched out in front of me, I could even clearly smell the scent of blood rushing at me.

The blood had already soaked through the watch strap, yet strangely, the watch was completely unaffected, still ticking away.

I was terrified… saying I wasn’t scared would be a lie.

A bloody hand appearing out of thin air, pale and dripping — who wouldn’t be scared?!

But… it cost 300 points!

I couldn’t just waste them, right?!

Gulp!

I swallowed hard, stood up with the support of the table, and looked at the hand…

It seemed to be a man’s hand, the skin on the arm was visibly different from a woman’s.

Whose hand was this?

Why was the watch on this hand?

And when I stood up, I finally noticed…

Saying there was nothing else before wasn’t accurate.

At least, on the outer side of the arm, there was a skull tattoo.

What did that mean??

Did the skull tattoo represent death?

The hand… stopped twenty centimeters in front of me, just floating there without any support, without any movement, as if… it was quietly waiting for me to take the watch from its wrist.

Gritting my teeth, I gathered some courage after a full meal.

Thanks to Old Master Yuan!

Taking a deep breath, I reached out and gently touched the arm.

The icy coldness confirmed for me… this was definitely not a living person’s hand!

With alertness and fear, I slowly unlatched the watch strap, then gently pulled the sides apart and removed it.

"Hoo…"

Seeing no reaction from the hand, letting me take the watch off freely, I couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.

But just as I exhaled, the moment the watch came off, the hand suddenly trembled!

Then it twisted its wrist and grabbed mine tightly!!

"Hiss!!!"

I gasped sharply, suppressing the urge to scream!

It held my wrist in a death grip, and this blood-soaked, icy, and stiff arm had such strength that it pulled me right onto the table.

Just when I thought I was going to be dragged into the void, suddenly, the hand started trembling again.

This time… unlike the earlier spasm, it was more like it was suffering some unbearable pain.

In an instant, it released my wrist and continued to shake violently.

My mind couldn’t think at all, calmness flew away instantly.

I struggled to back away from the table, eyes wide as I stared at the trembling hand.

Suddenly I felt my right hand empty, and my body tilted.

The world spun, and I realized… I had fallen off the table!

The pain calmed me in a flash, I couldn’t even care about the pain in my left leg.

I quickly got up and looked at the arm…

"Gone?"

The place where the arm had just been was now empty.

Only drops of blood remained on the table, and the watch I had removed — there were no other traces.

"Really… gone…"

At this moment, I couldn’t relax at all.

I kept checking around, vigilantly scanning the surroundings, but the hand never reappeared.

"Hoo…"

I exhaled deeply, my whole body trembling involuntarily.

I swallowed…

I knew I couldn’t leave these bloodstains here, or they’d cause big trouble.

I quickly grabbed a towel and wiped them away.

After some hesitation, I didn’t throw away the blood-soaked towel.

Instead, I put it aside, then picked up the watch and, without hesitation, turned on the faucet and rinsed it hard.

The blood quickly washed away, and the watch still ticked normally, completely unaffected.

"Products made by the system really are high quality? I’ve never even seen this watch brand before…"

The back of the watch was a hollowed-out tourbillon.

On the front was a large clock face, and from the time displayed, it appeared to be keeping regular time.

Below that was a small sub-dial with black and white, indicating 24-hour time.

At the top of the watch face, there was a dual Chinese character display frame, like a date display.

It wasn’t a digital screen, but a rotating type.

One of them displayed ‘Watch World’, and the other showed Thursday.

Hmm… what to make of this?

The weekday part was normal, fine.

But what was this ‘Watch World’?

However, just as I thought that, the light bulb above my head suddenly started flickering.

I instinctively looked up at the light tube, but aside from the flickering bulb, there was nothing else!

At the same time, I felt the watch vibrate slightly.

I quickly lowered my head, and under the flickering light, I saw the display frame on the watch labeled ‘Watch World’ begin to slowly rotate, changing into three new characters.

"Inter… World?"

When the three characters aligned in the center, I recognized them.

At the same time, I noticed the time…

The three largest hands on the watch all pointed to twelve!

What happened next… completely exceeded my imagination!

The whole world dimmed rapidly.

The light above, like a transformer suddenly dropping voltage, went from bright daylight to a dull, dim glow, like a classroom light bulb.

Everything around began to rot rapidly.

Pieces of furniture started to flake and float upward, flying into the air.

In under five seconds, it was as if a hundred years had passed.

Everything became old and decayed.

The wooden table lost its finish and turned weathered.

The iron pot lost its paint and was now rust-covered.

The bowl I had just used for fried rice… inside were cockroach and maggot corpses.

The white tiles on the floor turned yellow and dim, some already cracked.

The faucet beside had rusted shut.

German cockroaches crawled in and out of the pipes…

Seeing this… I shivered uncontrollably!

"Aunt Zhao!!!"

I snapped my head around, quickly strapped the watch onto my wrist.

Strangely, this watch was clearly sized for a man’s wrist — it should’ve been way too big for mine.

But… the watch strap seemed alive, shrinking instantly once on my wrist, perfectly fitting my size.

The sporty exterior of the watch quickly changed to a women’s style.

I glanced at the watch… I knew the game had already begun!

With the watch’s strangeness and the world’s transformation, I didn’t have time to think.

I wanted to check how the kind Aunt Zhao who had cared for me was doing.

This world had decayed in the blink of an eye — so… would that affect people?

Limping, I reached the room.

I placed my hand on the decayed doorknob and gently pushed open the bedroom door…

A breeze blew in from the window, stirring the rotting curtains.

The bed… was still the same bed.

But the sheets had rotted completely.

In the cracks of the bed frame, unknown bugs crawled back and forth.

I turned my head and looked at Aunt Zhao’s bed…

There was no figure.

The blanket lay there, but the person who had been lying underneath had vanished.

Space… space?

Watch World?

Inter World??

Could it be that space had actually shifted?

But… the surroundings hadn’t changed.

Though everything had decayed and crumbled, it was still the same hospital!

But in just a second, Aunt Zhao couldn’t have flown off, right?

If she didn’t fly off, then where was she now?

If she had died and decayed, then why wasn’t even a single bone left on the bed?

The stench of rot lingered in my nose.

The walls around were stained with a sinister crimson rust.

Everything visible was decaying.

I seemed to have seen something like this in a movie before…

Silent Hill?

Could this be a Silent Hill fanfic?

How was that even possible?

Looking at the moonlight shining in from outside, I felt even the moonlight had changed.

After a brief hesitation, I stepped onto the decayed old floor tiles, walking step by step to the window…

When I looked up at the moon… I was convinced — space really had shifted!

The moon, which once shone with gentle silver light, now emitted a scalp-tingling crimson glow.

There was no softness, and it wasn’t bright — that dark red… was like blood, spreading across the earth.

In my view, HC City had once been a decently bustling small city.

It wasn’t packed, but at least it was brightly lit.

But now… all light had dimmed.

Streetlamps only glowed faintly like jujube-red embers.

All the vehicles on the roads had decayed and rusted, and strangely, that rust — was blood-red.

"……"

Frowning at the scene before me, I couldn’t even say a word.

This eerie situation had far exceeded my imagination.

But just as I stood stunned at the window, suddenly — the front door was violently pushed open by something with a loud bang!

Bang!!