Half Immortal
CH 1
Chapter 1 – Promenade Hotel (1)
The night was deep, the stars hung high above.
Yan Wei laid in his bed with his eyes lightly closed, his thick eyelashes trembling slightly.
Paired with a tall nose and thin lips, it was a sight one couldn’t look away from.
His phone rang continuously, directly invading through Yan Wei’s eardrums, pulling him out from his sleep.
He squinted his eyes sleepily.
He finally saw that it was night —– He had actually slept through an entire day?
The phone was still vibrating.
Despite sleeping for so long, Yan Wei was still a little tired.
The night wind entered the room through the unclosed window, brushing past his cheeks.
The cool air helped sober him up a little.
Yan Wei glanced at the caller screen —- It was his friend who specialised in psychological research.
He yawned, rubbed his eyes, quickly washed his face and then picked up the phone and walked over to the window to let the wind pull him out from his sleepiness.
“What is it?” He leaned lazily against the window.
The wind did a pretty good job at waking him up.
From the other end of the phone, his friend’s voice travelled over, “Why didn’t you pick up when I called you earlier in the day?”
“Slept through it.”
“You sure can sleep!”
“Probably had a nightmare with you in it.”
“………” The other party was left unable to speak.
He then said, “Yan Wei, let me tell you, our hospital has recently received a new project.
Can you use your intelligence to help me analyse it?”
Yan Wei came from a good family background, but the excessively strict family environment had resulted in his rebelliousness nature and he has as a result done all sorts of new and exciting things and had also been involved with all sorts of strange and out of the world jobs.
He had been freelancing for a long time and had seen all kinds of people from all backgrounds.
In the process, his ability to read people had been honed very well.
Although psychology was something he wasn’t well versed in, he could always see through people with great ease and analyse everything clearly and concisely.
Over time, this friend of his began to seek his help whenever he ran into any difficulties.
He wasn’t surprised when he heard this.
He lightly chuckled, “No.”
Friend: “……Daddy!!”
“Then hurry and speak.
The old rules apply.
Don’t tell others I was involved.”
The other party hurriedly said, “I know, I know, you don’t like to draw attention to yourself.
I promise not to tell anyone! It’s like this.
Recently, there has been a new psychological phenomenon reported where people are suddenly having the same hallucinations.
They all say that they would see a black tower that disappeared into the clouds wherever they looked…….”
As Yan Wei listened, he leaned against the window and looked languidly into the distance.
“……No matter where they went, they would see that tower, and as time went by, that tower seemed to be getting closer and closer, as if it was calling for them to enter.
I talked to a patient suffering from this hallucination yesterday and he said that the tower was already in front of his eyes, but he was too afraid to enter.
Can you guess what happened? That patient committed suicide just now! Just like the others who had this hallucination, he committed suicide…..”
Yan Wei’s gaze suddenly stopped in the distance.
His friend’s voice continued, “…..Many people have reported seeing this hallucination.
Those who said that they didn’t dare enter were later discovered to have committed suicide and the methods of suicide were also very strange.
A couple of others who said that they would enter and take a look either got into an accident or went missing.
I think this must be a new kind of suicidal illness where people who want to kill themselves would develop this kind of hallucination——-”
Yan Wei’s gaze remained fixed in the distance.
He interrupted his friend, his voice lower than usual, “It’s not a hallucination.”
“Huh?”
“A black tower? How high did they say it was?”
“They said it couldn’t be seen.
The top of the tower went straight into the clouds.”
“Any windows?”
“Yes, but you couldn’t see inside the windows and the windows were also dark.
Did you think of something? Hello? ……..Hello? Yan Wei? Yan Wei are you still there?”
Yan Wei didn’t speak.
His place was on a high-rise building and when he normally looked out, he would see the city’s nightscape laid out before him.
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But right now, in front of him, there was a black tower blocking most of his view.
—–It was the black tower his friend had described.
The strange phenomenon that was only just being described to him had now suddenly appeared before him.
Yan Wei raised his hand and rubbed his eyes hard before confirming again that the tower really there.
Still on the phone, Yan Wei moved the phone in front of him, changed the phone interface and searched for related words.
Except for a few hearsays that seemed to be fabricated, the rest were all information similar to what his friend had just told him.
There was no additional information at all.
This matter involved himself.
Yan Wei forced himself to remain calm and then carefully thought over the things his friend had told him just now.
He was pretty sure he had no suicidal tendencies.
Those who saw this tower committed suicide while the few people who said they were going to enter disappeared…….
What if they didn’t see this ‘hallucination’ because they wanted to commit suicide but had ‘committed suicide in strange ways’ because they saw the black tower and didn’t enter?
As for those who said that they would go in, perhaps they really did go in, and something happened after entering resulting in them still dying while others were missing because they were still in there?
He immediately reached a conclusion.
Only a ‘patient’ can see the tower, so those who cannot see it wouldn’t be of any help.
After seeing this tower, you will die if you don’t enter.
But if you entered…….
“…….Hello, hello, hello? Yan Wei, are you still there?”
Yan Wei returned to his senses.
He had never been an emotionally driven person.
Since it had already happened, he didn’t get entangled in useless emotions and instead directly started to look for a solution.
Yan Wei slowly accepted his current predicament and lightly spoke up, “I’m here.
You said earlier…….”
The corners of his lips rose slightly, and his light brown eyes brightened slightly in interest, “Those who didn’t enter committed suicide whereas those who said they would enter, although some of them also died, there were still some that’s missing?”
“Ah, yeah.
Why?”
Yan Wei muttered to himself, “……That is to say, some people will see this black tower and of those who see it, only the ones who enter may not necessarily die.”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
In the bright and colourful cityscape, the tall black tower was particularly eye-catching.
It was completely black, as if it absorbed all the lights around it.
It was very close to Yan Wei.
It seemed like it was just across from his building.
The black tower stood there silently but the people passing by didn’t seem to have noticed anything.
Only Yan Wei could see it in its entirety.
Perhaps it was because the black colour in front of him was too gloomy, Yan Wei even felt that the wind that was blowing into his room was a lot colder.
He shivered slightly and then turned and proceeded to put on the clothes hanging from his hanger.
He put on a windbreaker and wrapped himself in a scarf as he answered the other person’s doubtful questions, “It’s not a hallucination, I can see it too.
Since people who can’t see it can’t do anything, I will go in and sort it out.
If I ‘commit suicide’, just remember that this is not a hallucination.
If I come out alive, there may be an answer to your research.”
Yan Wei hung up.
That black tower seemed to have also seen him.
When Yan Wei reached the first floor, the tower had completely appeared in front of him, as if it had moved hundreds of metres forward across this huge city.
It was pitch-black with no additional decorations.
There were only windows on each floor that were similarly pitch-black.
And at the lowest floor, right in front of Yan Wei, an open door was facing him.
It was very dark past the door; nothing could be seen.
The surrounding streetlamps emitted a bright yellow glow, but it was unable to dispel any of the darkness.
Yan Wei looked up and quietly observed the tower.
He was an extremely rational person.
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Now that he was faced with this tower that would result in his death if he didn’t enter, he would naturally seek out the best solution in the shortest amount of time.
—–And that was to go in.
He sucked in a deep breath, raised his foot and walked through the crowd of unaware people passing by, his windbreaker fluttered slightly with each step.
He slowly stepped into the black tower and his figure was quickly swallowed up by the darkness.
.
[Welcome to the tower.]
[There are a total of ninety-nine floors in this tower and each floor is a random instance.
There are players, NPC’s and instance bosses in each instance and the genre is mostly horror.
Starting players will start at the first floor.
Players can only leave this tower alive after reaching the top floor and, if successful, players can bring along with them to reality the abilities gained in this tower.]
[There are two ways to ascend the tower.
Firstly, by clearing the instance using the clues h
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