A Player's Scholarly Journey

(Group transmigration, multiple players, no breaking up canon couples, and no romantic developments with characters from the original work)

The Anomaly Management Bureau has just launched a new unrestricted immersive game called A Scientific Mystery's Instance Adventure. Every player who won a spot in the closed beta is fired up, determined to make a name for themselves in the game world.

Once inside the game, the players are dumbfounded. They can't reach their personal System, the exit button has disappeared, and all they have left is a group chat in their heads.

With no other choice, the players lie low for the time being.

Then, one day, the System finally comes online.

With powerful backing, the players reveal their true fourth-calamity nature.

From then on, the players and NPCs lead a chaotic, hilarious life of love and mutual hatred.

(PS: The System returns in Chapter 17)

A little scene:

You're vaulting across rooftops on your way to meet up with the other players. The moment you climb in, you lock eyes with a mustachioed man with catlike eyes standing by the window.

A player nearby, who hadn't managed to stop you in time, covers their face in despair.

Ding! A System prompt rings out.

[Please deliver the following line with plenty of emotion: ...]

You read the mission panel again and again. Finally, you steel yourself, point at Zhu Fu Jingguang, and look at the player with three parts reluctance, three parts hatred, and four parts utter heartbreak. "You left me for him?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang stares in shock at the two minors before him, completely unable to make sense of the situation.

Wait, am I the other man?