The NPCs Have Rebelled, and This Broken System Keeps Screwing Me Over!

Overworked wage slave Zhen Yingjun died suddenly after another late night at the office, only to open his eyes in a fantasy game world as the “Chosen One”? But his golden finger, [System 404], is the most troublesome one in history: its missions are utterly erratic (“Make the crying Mushroom King happy within ten minutes, or ‘The Most Dazzling Ethnic Style’ will play on repeat!”), its rewards depend on its mood (a divine artifact or a box of candy that showers you with flattery?), and its logic is as scrambled as a virus. Worse still, the world is falling apart because of a “data storm.” NPCs are awakening and starting a rebellion, players have become the “Fourth Calamity” and are tearing the place apart, while higher-dimensional “reapers” from the real world watch hungrily from the sidelines.

Forced into the role of a hero, Zhen Yingjun sets off on an absurd struggle to survive with his sharp-tongued, glitch-ridden System 404. Along the way, he gradually discovers that the key to saving the world might not be grinding levels and killing monsters, but fixing this program riddled with bugs, and stopping two universes from crashing and burning together. Can he, an overworked wage slave who just wants to lie flat, rely on snark and a bizarre team, including a farmer convinced he’s the protagonist and an awakened gluttonous Slime King, to pull off the most unreliable cross-dimensional rescue in history and become the “hero” of a “glitched universe”?