Simulating the Myriad Worlds: What If I'm a Cannon Fodder Every Time?

Chen Du was an ordinary man who barely registered in the real world. By chance, he became bound to the Myriad Worlds Simulator, but this was no blessing. It was a curse.

From then on, he was forced to travel through "small worlds," forever playing cannon fodder, test subjects, or disposable pawns destined for gruesome deaths.

In a magical world, Chen Du was a test subject whose magic ran dry and who died after being drained of it. In an interstellar world, he was a prisoner whose memories were erased and who rotted away in his cell.

With every simulation, Chen Du had only a few days to a few dozen days to live, meeting his death amid unbearable pain and despair.

When a simulation ended, all he could bring back was experience gained on the brink of death, shattered memories, and the strongest "fragments of obsession" left behind by the cannon fodder characters as they died. By fulfilling these nameless people's final wishes, Chen Du could obtain "causal anchor points," which let him access some memories earlier in the next simulation and struggle to avoid death.

However, every successful attempt to evade death triggered a targeted upgrade by that world's "villainous BOSS," making the threat of death even more terrifying next time.

Through endless cycles of death, Chen Du grew practiced and numb, thinking of himself as nothing more than a "gravedigger for obsessions."

A turning point came in his 31st simulation.

For once, Chen Du drew the role of an "ordinary researcher" who survived for an entire year in a zombie apocalypse. This time, he experienced a relatively complete life. Volunteering to become the final human test subject in the development of a cure, he died "peacefully" amid his companions' tears. The fragment of obsession he brought back was no longer hatred or resentment, but a warm sentence:

"If I get another life, I want to remember your name."