Name: Lost All Five Senses, Still Grinding Dungeons
Author: Jia Fei Fei

Synopsis

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After pulling all-nighters to clear more than a dozen games, workaholic Zhu Fengzhu still wasn't satisfied. Then a shady game company dragged him into an infinite-flow instance.

The game was riddled with bugs, its balance was a mess, monster stats seemed to have been set by someone using their feet, and the player interface was as blank as a sheet of paper. You had one life from start to finish, and the points you earned for clearing an instance could only buy five bottles of mineral water.

But after plenty of effort, he still cleared the beginner instance and obtained his signature skill:

"Reload." Whenever he used it, he randomly lost one of his five senses.

Zhu Fengzhu: What a vicious drawback!

Luckily, Zhu Fengzhu seemed to have been born with a talent for acting.

After a few instances, he finally let his natural instincts take over and mastered the following strategy:

First run: Keep calm and don't get reckless. Figure out the instance's rules first. It doesn't matter if you get a game over.

Second run: Go straight into character!

He played a blind truth-speaker, a deaf prophet, and even a seer who had only his sense of touch.

Using his information advantage, he spun lie after lie, deceiving a whole crowd of people into following him. They even died for him without hesitation.

They treated his words as truth and believed that following his instructions would guarantee a clear.

And that was exactly what happened.

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One ordinary day, the game descended upon the world.

At first, no one noticed. The first wave of players died inside.

Later, the game spread like a plague, even invading the real world. Countless people were forced into it, struggling to survive.

Until He appeared.

He took the forms of a truth-speaker, a prophet, and a seer.

He was elusive and inscrutable, guiding people through crisis after crisis.

As long as He was there, the instance clear rate remained at a constant 100%.

He was the hope of all humanity.

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Player A: I met the Almighty in the last instance! I just went "aba aba" the whole time and coasted to victory.

Player A: As expected, the Almighty had His loyal proxy by His side the whole time.

Player A: I wish I were His proxy. I'm so jealous of that guy!

Player A: That guy even took advantage of the Almighty when He lost His sense of touch, sight, and hearing. Aaaaaah!

Player B: What? How dare he defile the Almighty! I'll kill him! Aaaaaah!

Player A (dejected): I can't beat him at all. I hate to admit it, but that guy really is strong.

Players A and B: Sigh.

Player A: Aaaaaah! One day, I'll take his place!

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Beneath the dim lights, the blindfolded young man called out softly.

"Jiang Zhao, are you there?"

Jiang Zhao had been leaning greedily toward Zhu Fengzhu, kissing the back of his hand and his cheek over and over with a sick, restrained gaze.

At the sound of his voice, he abruptly froze, but answered with extraordinary gentleness. "I'm here."

He crawled to the young man's side, took his jade-white fingertips, and carefully placed them against his face. Kneeling, he let the hand wearing a pinky ring scrape roughly and wantonly over his Adam's apple. His voice was cloying and damp, touched with a feverish fervor.

"I will always obey your orders, Master."

In the dim room, the platinum wedding bands, secretly slipped onto their ring fingers not long ago, reflected one another, gleaming with a sharp, silvery light.

Workaholic / cool and detached / frail / brilliant / talented actor / shou

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Overwhelmingly strong / sunny on the surface but a gloomy, clingy puppy underneath / gong

※※ Reader's Note ※※

1. Strong x strong. The gong and shou are each other's one and only, with intense mutual feelings.

2. Both are players, and the gong has plenty of scenes. He is not a background character.

3. The style leans serious, with a focus on outsmarting opponents. They won't clear instances through brute force, and there will be character growth.

4. No livestreams or scrolling comments.

5. More notes may be added later.

-- Upcoming: [I Choose to Be a Capitalist] --

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Ji Shize, an elite corporate drone, died from overwork. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated and become a little baby.

Based on his years of reading novels, transmigrators ought to get a golden finger.

He waited and waited. He finished elementary, middle, and high school, and was about to become a corporate drone again, but his golden finger still hadn't shown up.

Had the heavens made him transmigrate just so he could be worked to death all over again?

Luckily, the heavens finally smiled on him. On his eighteenth birthday, his golden finger arrived at last:

[Capitalist]

1. Invest in others to improve their talents, or even change their talents from scratch.

2. Those he invests in automatically hand over a portion of their rewards to the capitalist.

3. The more his investments grow, the more investment points he gets.

Capitalist. What an awful word! Just look at those terms. How utterly unscrupulous!

But now he was the one who got to be the capitalist. Well, this was actually pretty great!

Right, he would set himself a modest little goal:

Take his company to that damned otherworld!

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A higher-dimensional invasion swept the entire Blue Star into a game.

When Blue Star residents turn eighteen, a rare few awaken talents and become instance architects, gaining the ability to build instances.

The carefully crafted instances are easily conquered by otherworldly players. The architect dies, and the ruined instance falls into the real world, becoming an unresolvable dead zone.

No one dared imagine what would happen if every instance were conquered and otherworldly players brought their skills to Blue Star, turning it into one giant map for harvesting resources...

Luckily, none of that would happen.

Because [Dream-Making Company] had arrived.

Join the company and offer up your soul, and you can get...

Money and fame?

No. Join, and you can defy fate, gain talents you never dared dream of, and then get everything else.

-

Otherworldly Players' Forum:

-Has anyone cleared an instance signed "Capitalist"? The System says I'm going into this architect's instance in an hour. Begging the experts for a walkthrough!

-Look at that, another unlucky fool. Remember to bring less gear when you go in.

-Huh? No gear? Then how am I supposed to clear it?

-Who said you could clear it? His instance clear rate is still 0. The strongest guild spent a whole month beating their heads against it and still couldn't clear it. They lost piles of gear, and the guild leader even lost a level.

-What?? The sky is falling! What kind of garbage game won't let people clear it?

-Yeah! So many players have complained, but the stupid game won't fix it!

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Ji Shize had been troubled lately.

His company was thriving, his skills were getting stronger, and the clear rate of his instances was still 0.

Everything was going great, except there was a bug in one of his instances.

The bug appeared out of nowhere and randomly killed groups of players whenever it showed up.

Ji Shize had been hunting it for ages. At last, after all his hard work, he caught it: a gorgeous man, completely naked.

Wait, how did this bug turn into a person on the spot?

And he's exactly my type!

What am I supposed to do if I can't bring myself to kill him?

No, I have to turn this bug into a prized workhorse and make him work for me!