Compared to the absurdity of reality, characters pieced together from game data seem more like real people. When the word "Commander" is no longer cold text or a pre-recorded voice, but someone really calling out to you, or perhaps to "all of you," would you be afraid or delighted?
Liang Qirong is clearly the former. As a gaming content creator who had only just registered an account, he had imagined becoming the Doctor or the Traveler, but never in a million years did he think he would become a "Commander"...
This ordinary human has no System, no superpowers, no Originium Arts, and no storage ring. Through the eyes of "you all," he explores a world ravaged by the Punishing Virus.