Creator God System: I Rely on Comatose Players to Keep Me Alive

Chen Fantian, who has late-stage lung cancer, accidentally activates the Creation God System. He discovers that the online hours of players in vegetative states can be exchanged for creation points, which can both extend his life and strengthen his body. Thirty percent of the players’ attributes can also be transferred to the real world.

He summons the vegetative patients from his hospital into the world he created, where this crew of “lie-flat” players get up to all sorts of ridiculous antics: ramming monsters with their faces, fighting over sticks, and leveling up by playing dead. The creation points converted from their online hours help Chen Fantian go from coughing up blood and struggling to walk to steadily recovering; even his tumors begin to shrink.

As the player count grows from 10 to 1,110, dungeons open and an economy takes shape. Signs of consciousness begin to appear in the patients’ real-world bodies. Gazing at the System panel, Chen Fantian knows that as long as the players stay “online,” he can stay alive, and these sleeping people may yet wake up...