I Became Huang Quan in a Parallel World

(Gender swap, not set in the Honkai: Star Rail universe. Please don't read if that's not your thing.) Ning Quan transmigrated and became the mysterious Galaxy Ranger from the game, an Emanator of Nihility. This was a strange world, where everything was stuck on a single day. The people had no awareness, repeating the same things over and over, day after day, like AIs running a prewritten program. These people were called NPCs. Where there were NPCs, there would also be players. The players awakened from the loop and gained an ability called “Talent Mantras,” allowing them to survive in this repeating world. They seemed like viruses in the world, and the world's immune system tried to eliminate them. Whether through “rules” or all kinds of monsters, the players' lives were constantly in danger. It was in these circumstances that the Foundation appeared. The Explorers' Foundation. Driven by their desire to explore the world, these utterly unreasonable dreamers captured and contained the monsters that attacked players, conducting experiments and research in a desperate attempt to uncover the truth about the world. Most players joined the Foundation. This is a story about the Foundation fighting against the world... or is it? “Hey, purple hair, you're a transmigrator, aren't you?” The words spoken by the girl who looked so much like the game's Huohuo struck like a clap of thunder, and the world in Ning Quan's eyes grew increasingly bewildering. At the very end, Ning Quan, his hair now white, walked alone through the rain, holding that brilliant red blade. Perhaps it was just as Acheron had said in the game: “Don't look back. There is nowhere left to go.”