Cyber Game: Boss, Don't Be Afraid. I'm One of the Good Guys

[Cyberpunk world + game invasion + Fourth Catastrophe + light Lovecraftian horror + mutants + travel between two worlds]

(Slow burn; gets increasingly satisfying as it goes, with plenty of carefree power fantasy, some Cyberpunk 2077 elements, and a player’s mindset)

“Back then, I had no choice.”

“Now, I just want to be a good person.”

Five-star fugitive · mutant devourer · Pu Sai Corporation’s corporate dog · Underworld District thug · bloody lobotomist · butcher of rainy nights · Dawn Church defector · favored by an Old One · pioneer leader · Ark of the Apocalypse · Light of the Stars · Lin Zhou said this.

“Oh, my dear lady, you have a brilliant mind, quick reflexes, and excellent combat skills. Your beauty is your least remarkable quality...”

“If I had to make one small criticism, I’d just ask you to hear out a minor suggestion.”

“What suggestion?”

“Take the knife away from my throat.”

At first, Lin Zhou thought Beneath the Tower was just an ordinary VR game.

A cyberpunk world where capitalism had developed unchecked to its extreme: AI, virtual reality, cybernetic enhancements, brain-computer interfaces, colossal monopolies...

Advanced technology had given rise to cyberpsychos with diminished humanity. Severe mental contamination could even mutate the human body.

Lin Zhou was accidentally swept up in the tide of the times. To stay alive, she had no choice but to be carried forward, farther and farther.

In the end, she reached heights she herself had never anticipated.

This story is also known as “The Strictest Mother in Mist Bay Has Arrived,” “I Killed My Way Across the City, So Why Didn’t I Meet a Single Cyberpsycho?” and “Mutants? Take It Up With My Blade.”