After the Captive Game's Beauty NPC Awakens

Yu Ling was an ordinary researcher in District 16 of Future City, spending every day in a lab coat surrounded by biological agents.

He was reserved and rarely interacted with anyone, but his unusual long silver hair and excessively striking looks drew gossip and speculation about his private life.

In reality, he led an ordinary life, going between home and work. The only strange thing was that red marks of unknown origin occasionally appeared on his body, and his lips would grow a more wanton shade of red.

The doctor said he had sleepwalking disorder and advised him to increase his nighttime medication.

Then one day, he found a pair of glasses. When he put them on, the world changed completely.

A number appeared on his wrist: No. 00.

A long string of text popped up above his head: [White Stockings Sailor Uniform Mod] [Vacuum Nun Habit Mod] [False Pregnancy Delivery Mod]...

Comments kept scrolling across his vision: [Why'd he suddenly stop? Is he secretly clenching? Bad girl.]

[Don't say that about my mom. He just didn't get enough in the dungeon yesterday, while the top-ranked player got their fill.]

[Little Ling doesn't even know what's going on. He's just a clueless, emotionless little test tube.]

Yu Ling's gaze shifted to the beaker on the lab table. What did that mean? Were they talking about him?

Only then did he learn that the world he lived in was just a game, and he was its most popular NPC.

Players called him the "Moon God," the "Little Saintess," their "One and Only White Moonlight," and "the Beaker."

On nights he couldn't remember, players had paid enough to buy an island to take him into dungeons. There, as a healing NPC, he provided holy water and, at certain moments, served as a vessel.

Now he had the option to retain his memories, and had learned about his one-of-a-kind ability: through merging, he could copy the code of dungeon bosses and use it as his own.

Yu Ling made a decision. He would escape, and he would take back his world.

In the next dungeon, high-level players were stunned to find that Yu Ling remembered their faces. He had started smiling faintly at them and tugging on their clothes, saying, "Come with me, big brother."

More and more people went crazy over him, fighting each other to the death. Strange things kept happening in the game, and even began to affect the real world.

No one knew that before a dungeon ended, the beauty would always sneak into the monsters' lair and embrace the terrifying evil god with his snow-white arms, his voice infinitely gentle.

"Don't be afraid. Merge into my body, and together we'll attain immortality."

Thesis: A signal crossing dimensions.