Beta Tester 002

Infinite flow + horror + comedy + strong female lead + office worker + System + beta testing Ji Wuyou, 22, office drone. She works by day to support her younger brother and enters instances in her sleep at night. Her mother named her “Wuyou,” hoping she’d have a smooth and carefree life. Instead, her mother died when she was eight, her father was as good as absent, she started raising her younger brother at nineteen, and at twenty-two, a grinning pumpkin-headed System dragged her into the Eternal Night Test Zone. Player No. 002. Beta tester. Every day she’s exhausted to the point of collapse, yet still has to play chase with ghosts in the instances. Ji Wuyou doesn’t want to die, because her little brother is waiting for her at home. But that lousy pumpkin head keeps sabotaging her. Other players encounter B-rank ghosts; she gets A+. Others trigger “Don’t look back”; she triggers “Turn around and smile at the ghost, or die.” She’s cursed out the System for three years and given the pumpkin head more than forty nicknames, becoming the woman beta testers least want to mess with. Three years later, Eternal Night descends. The world plunges into chaos as evil spirits invade reality. Ordinary people are scared half to death, but the beta testers laugh, because this is their turf. There’s only one thing Ji Wuyou wants to know: who is No. 001, the person who is always out of sync with her and never appears at the same time? [Reading Guide] This book has a male lead. But most of the time, he’s just background scenery, and he may appear less often than the ghosts. There isn’t much of him, and the romance is limited. The heroine mostly focuses on staying alive and raising her younger brother; romance is just something she happens to do along the way. Both leads are strong. The heroine’s strength is clear as day, while the male lead’s is inexplicable (not really). No torturing the heroine, the other female characters, or the readers. The story is mainly about the instances, with lots of fighting and lots of snark.