Game Invasion: I'm the Only NPC

[Game Invasion] [Unique NPC] [Rule-Based Mind Games] [Apocalyptic Management] [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Ensemble Cast]

The game descends upon reality, and everyone in the world gains a class, a status panel, and the right to return.

Only Shen Qi, owner of a repair shop, has a blue question mark floating above her head:

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Players think she's a hidden NPC. The Ark classifies her as an anomaly to be contained. Meanwhile, corrupted monsters track her down using an old terminal left behind by her father.

All she has is a blank quest form, and she can fill it out only once. Get the quest wrong, and the person who issues it dies.

So...

While players fight monsters to level up, she takes her ten percent first;

When the top-ranked player comes to inspect the goods, the key is his, but the door is hers;

Professional teams who want to take over the quests have to sign a risk waiver first;

When the System tries to erase her, she turns its deletion program into the server's very first hidden elite monster.

From a shady shop and a beginner zone to ruined cities, real-world quest zones, and the global endgame dungeon, Shen Qi gradually discovers that the one truly trying to erase her isn't some monster. It's an "optimal rule" that allows humanity to give only one answer.

Later, the whole world receives the same quest for the first time:

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Looking at the bounty page, Shen Qi says only one thing:

"The bounty is real. Immunity for murder is not."

While everyone fights for ultimate control, this one-of-a-kind NPC wants only to ask one question:

How can a world where no one is allowed to refuse be called a game?