Chen Jiu spent ten years as a convenience-store NPC, repeating "Welcome!" every day, until the System suddenly begged him not to quit the game. He has no idea that he is the living anchor sustaining a virtual city, while Shen Wu, the icy operations director, is secretly guiding him to tear the System apart. The vagrant A Qi is hiding the consciousness of players who were consumed; teacher Zhou Xiaoman has filled her textbooks with the truth; the black-feathered boy Bai Xiao repeats the tenderness Chen Jiu has forgotten. Even the old locust tree remembers that he was once a person from the real world. Now the System is collapsing, and he is the only one who can restart the world or end everything.
