Horror Stories from the Start: The Top Expert Goes on a Killing Spree

[Strong Female Lead + No Romance + Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + System Showdown + Decisive and Ruthless + Absolute Rationality]

As supernatural horrors descended, the world became a multitude of terrifying instances governed by rules that killed.

Ye Chang'an, a woman with elite-soldier-level combat skills and a heart of ice, was the only “courier” in the world to survive for three years.

One day, she was bound to the [High-Stakes Tug-of-War System] and accepted a deadly delivery: escorting the “World-Destroying Divine Infant.”

Trapped in a desperate alley, surrounded by a night of roaming demons, the infant’s cries drew a city full of murderous horrors.

The System coldly issued an unwinnable choice: [Option One: Feed it your flesh and be weakened for ten days. Option Two: Abandon the package and be annihilated in body and soul!]

Expressionless, Ye Chang'an drew her bone-cleaver and pointed its blade at empty air.

“I choose option three. I’ll hack open your source code and make every horror in this city pay the price for me.”

That night, the mutated horrors of the haunted city howled to the heavens. A hundred thousand vengeful ghosts took her ten days of weakness in her place, and she crossed a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to deliver the package to its recipient on time.

The System went mad, issuing all kinds of fatal choices in an attempt to eliminate its Host.

But at the brink of life and death, Ye Chang'an forcibly rewrote the rules, transferring every cost to the instance’s great terror.

The monsters wailed and begged for mercy: “Run! That living King of Hell courier is delivering packages again!”

Gradually, the mighty System realized it had been forcibly tamed into a lowly support tool...