دانلود رمان انگلیسی “حالت جهنمی” – جلد 1

The man’s name was Yamada Kenichi. He was a thirty-five-year-old office worker, and he was single. “It’s actually over? After only three years of service?” he murmured forlornly from within his 142-square-foot studio apartment. Despite it being daytime on a Saturday, Kenichi was at home. He was blankly staring at his computer screen, which currently displayed a fantasy landscape with “FIN” written in fancy letters in the bottom right corner. It appeared to be an online game, with numerous characters expressing their farewells in varying words and gestures. “Man, that was just another game on easy mode. Like, the easiest of all easy modes. It’s probably best that it ended. Saves me from wasting any more time and money on it.” Despite having spent much of his salary and bonus rolling for loot boxes and purchasing in-game items, Kenichi did not feel all that sad about the game ending. After all, during the three years since its launch, he had been rather dissatisfied with its simplistic story and low level of difficulty. The only thing that had kept him playing was the hope of it one day receiving an update that would add more engaging content. But alas, reality was cruel. Perhaps it was due to stagnant player base growth. Or maybe it was something else. Regardless, the company servicing the game had announced that they were shutting it down. “Hm? What’s this, they’re launching a new game?” When Kenichi quit the game and checked the company’s site, he found a link to what seemed to be a page introducing a new title that they were releasing. He clicked on it. “Let’s s— Huh?” Kenichi’s jaw dropped as he read the despair-inducing text that appeared.