Escape from the Eighty-One Worlds

[Blurb One]

A deduction challenge game suddenly transforms into a terrifying hunt. The identities of the participants can change at any moment: will they be assigned as the killer, the dead, or an insignificant ordinary player? The game System decides directly.

Players must complete their objective by killing their target or killing them in self-defense to avoid being assigned the role of the dead in the next round. They may even inherit the identity of the player they killed in the previous round, though never the identity of someone who died.

But after round upon round of competition and slaughter, they discover that a player's role in this game isn't limited to killing or being killed, and that the players are no longer just players.

The Eighty-One Worlds' control and manipulation of humanity extend far beyond the game itself.

In a game world almost indistinguishable from reality, who can escape alive?

[Blurb Two]

Feng Jiyang has successfully qualified for the Eighty-One Worlds Challenge, becoming one of the leading contenders for its massive prize pool.

During the final qualifying round, someone tells him this is a death game and urges him to get off the ship.

But Feng Jiyang knows that if he leaves, he'll never find that increasingly indistinct figure again.

He's forgotten the person's name and face, and is now forgetting all the stories they shared.

Even the evidence and traces of the person's existence in this world are gradually disappearing...

And it all began with this game.

Perhaps in this deadly game, he can recover all his memories. Perhaps he can even find that person again.

[Blurb Three]

In Yu Chen's memories, he has taken part in the offline game of the Eighty-One Worlds more than once.

He once made it out of the game, but it seems he lost something very important.

Some things he remembers clearly; others have grown hazy.

He could have stayed away from this deadly game, but when he found the great beauty named Feng Jiyang, that guy had already entered the Eighty-One Worlds.

He has no choice but to enter the cycle of death once more, because he promised a friend he would take good care of this person.

Yu Chen: You trust me that much? Aren't you afraid I'm the Big Bad Wolf?

Feng Jiyang: At most, you're the Big Bad Wolf from the cartoon.

Yu Chen: ...

Feng Jiyang: I know why you didn't catch the killer in Round 12 of the qualifiers.

Yu Chen: Don't think so highly of me. Maybe I had some other motive.

Feng Jiyang: Such as?

Yu Chen: Such as wanting to freeload in your room, beauty.

Feng Jiyang: ...

Inspired: July 2019; first posted: September 2019

Blurb revised: July 2021

※※※: The gong is slick-tongued and sometimes acts unseriously. Quite a few people in the game world like him. The shou doesn't like talking; he's icy in public and a little fox in private. Don't read if that's not your thing.

※※※: Little romance, mainly plot.

※※※: Utter nonsense from beginning to end, completely illogical. Don't read if that's not your thing.

※※※: A fictional world, completely unrelated to reality.

※※※: Includes NPCs and a touch of sci-fi.

A soapy little sweet romance: The Dog CEO and the Green Tea Rabbit

Modern-day esports romance: Look, Those Two Are Acting Again

Theme: Persevering through hardship