The Game Has Arrived, and I'm Just an Extra

[A Background Extra × Winning Through Insider Knowledge × Snarky Humor]

I had nothing from the start, but I had a seven-year guide.

A game descends, and the fantasy world of Guixu merges with reality.

Monsters appear in the streets, System panels appear before everyone’s eyes, and humanity is pulled into a strange world filled with astral marks and countless races.

While everyone else panics, loses their way, and runs from monsters,

Lu Renjia opens his map, takes one look, then heads for the rockery in the park. A hidden chest only he knows about is waiting there.

Seven years of grinding in the game Guixu have taught him:

which monsters won’t attack first, which NPCs have hidden quests, which routes are best for farming,

which dungeons can be soloed, which auction-house items are underpriced, and which factions have traps in their contracts…

He thought he was just lucky to start with a walkthrough.

That is, until someone puts a bounty on the ancient jade on his person,

until he discovers that someone is behind the merger of Guixu and reality,

until an old man at the City God Temple looks at him and says

“The last person with the surname Lu asked me the same question.”

He suddenly realizes:

This game might not be here to make him the protagonist.

But that’s fine.

Seven years of grinding have trained more than just his reflexes.