Dark Zone Breakout: The Boss Squad and the Operators

[Gaming + no female lead + scheming protagonist + esports + online game]

Wang Ao finds a lion while playing Arena Breakout, but it won't fit in his four-slot secure container. He tries to extract through the Dam, but while passing the sewage treatment plant, Charlie Ewen shoots him in the head with a Pharaoh. When he enters the game again, he finds that the graphics have become terrifyingly strange...

(The ending isn't good. The author wrote this as practice and will start a new book later.)