Wu Lin was a veteran of infinite-flow scenarios. After clearing countless instances, he finally beat the game and received the System's promise.
He would go to a peaceful new world and live out the rest of his life in comfort.
Then he opened his eyes to a wasteland filled with gunfire, explosions, the shrieks of monsters, and attacks from the shadows.
Wu Lin: "..."
He seemed to have been tricked.
But it wasn't a big deal.
The young man bent down, casually picked up a bamboo skewer from the ground, and swiftly drove it through the head of a monster lunging at him.
He stepped through the wreckage and out of the shadows, his dark eyes reflecting the dim light of the sky.
Being tricked was fine.
He just had to kill everything.
"Phantom Cosmos" is currently the hottest full-dive extraction shooter.
It offers an exceptional degree of freedom, a dazzling array of weapons, gear, and skills, and demands skill, game sense, strategy, and luck.
One day, a young player with a garbled name appeared in the game.
Players: Totally normal. That's what randomly generated System names look like. Must be a bot.
He didn't wear armor or a bulletproof vest.
Players: Totally normal. The no-armor knife-running build is pretty popular, too.
He only picked up food and water.
Players: Totally normal. A clueless newbie who doesn't know the value of loot, probably starving to death.
He passed right by a major loot location without even looking.
Players: Totally normal. Either he doesn't have the map memorized or he's completely blind.
He didn't use guns, scavenging everything on-site and wielding only melee weapons like bamboo skewers and bayonets.
Players: Totally normal... right?
The next second, he used a bamboo skewer to stab an elite monster through the head, then used a table knife to wipe out a whole squad. Everyone and every monster he encountered along the way got skewered.
Players: ???
Wait, is this normal?!
Can a carbon-based life-form actually pull off moves like that?!
Only later did Wu Lin realize he hadn't been tricked. It was just a game.
No wonder the bullets wouldn't chamber. He had to open the menu first.
Still, this kind of game brought back some fond memories.
Just a little, of course.
Pei Jin, a former battle royale pro who won every major title, is now one of "Phantom Cosmos's" top streamers. He has world-class mechanical skill and strategic awareness.
And world-class luck, too. Finding top-tier loot is a breeze for him.
One day, viewers in Pei Jin's livestream suddenly noticed he had a new teammate.
A monster-level lone wolf killer with a garbled ID, famous across the game for his bamboo skewer.
Viewers: ?!
Seriously? The streamer already has insane luck looting things, and now he can even pick up a teammate like this?!
Pei Jin:, v
I didn't pick him up. I lured him over by cooking for him every day.
[Reader's Guide]
1. Beautiful, powerful, tragic bottom × healing-type top with maxed-out devoted-husband energy
2. The bottom's tragic past includes PTSD
3. My take on an extraction shooter. Lots of original elements, since the only extraction shooter the author has played is Duckov 🥺
Theme: Keep striving!