Infinite Suspense: I Grind Through Instances in Another World

[Suspenseful infinite worlds | Multiple scenarios | Rules-based horror | Supernatural game | No female lead | System]

Death isn’t the end. It’s a ticket into a scenario.

After being crushed to death by a fully insured semi-truck, Jiang Xiaobai entered a world made up of sinister scenarios.

The System can grant him abilities, but it won’t tell him the right answers.

And the rules don’t necessarily lie.

What’s truly deadly is often people’s unquestioning interpretation of the rules.

In “Going Home,” he becomes a university student.

The school keeps telling him: The school is your home.

But the “mother” on the other end of the phone urges him to leave campus and hurry home.

He has only one condition for clearing the scenario: find his real home and make it back safely.

While everyone else points him in different directions, he must first figure out what “home” really means.

In “Entropy Factory,” he becomes an ordinary worker.

Everyone here wears an entropy bracelet. Their entropy levels determine their status, their jobs, and even whether they live or die.

The workers toil desperately, yet their entropy levels keep falling. Those above exploit the rules to devour those below, while those below can seize loopholes and turn the tables on their superiors.

The more promotions he earns, the closer he’ll get to the truth about the factory.

But when Jiang Xiaobai finally takes the supervisor’s seat, he discovers

The most terrifying thing about this factory was never one particular heartless supervisor.

It’s that every position forces people to become the next supervisor.

One scenario after another, one identity layered upon another.

Jiang Xiaobai isn’t just looking for a way to get out alive.

He also wants to know:

If everyone is following the rules, who is really at fault?