While others were fighting for their lives in the dungeon, Lin Chi was sitting in the safe house drinking coffee.
On the screen in front of him were several figures covered in blood - those were his "assets". He had just used 80 causal points to buy a piece of key information and retrieved his ace intruder from a certain death trap. A prompt pops up on the screen: trust level +12, return on investment: 340%.
This is Lin Chi's job. He is not a warrior, not a strategist. He is the only person in this hell game who does not have to die personally.
He is an investor.
In this world, some people are selected to become "breakers" who break into the terrifying dungeon, risking their lives to fight, solve puzzles, and struggle to survive. And some people - a very small number of people - are given another identity: sitting behind the scenes, signing contracts, investing in these game breakers like buying and selling stocks, and extracting benefits from their life and death game.
Choose people. Bet. Harvest.
This sounds like a perfect business. Until Lin Chi discovered that what he needed was not just a contract, but also trust—the kind of fragile and expensive thing that can only be tempered between life and death.
Until he discovered that there were other investors outside the copy who were joining forces to hunt his team.
Until he discovered that when the trust value returns to zero, investors who are backlashed by "assets" will fall into the abyss and never be reincarnated.
And when Lin Chi tried his best and finally reached the top of the game, he saw a line of words engraved on the bottom of the system——
"S-level investors, please note: you are also being invested."
This is an endless game.
