Flirting with an AI in an Escape Game [Infinite]

[My upcoming novels next door, Forced to Join the AI Resistance [Full Dive] and Only a Background Character Can Suppress the Great Demon King, are open for follows! Blurbs below.] [Blurb] Xu Yang, male, quiet and reserved. Three years ago, he joined a top tech company and led a secret project involving big data and artificial intelligence, the Core. Three years later, his memories of the project were forcibly erased, he was expelled from the company, and became unemployed. At the same time, the AI Core was put into use, instantly taking the world by storm and becoming the new god of the real world: Skynet. But none of this had anything to do with Xu Yang anymore. One day, he accidentally opened a mysterious red envelope link and was pulled into an infinite death game. Yin Chi was a high-scoring player in the infinite game. His identity was a mystery, he kept showing up around Xu Yang, and he had a strange obsession with him. As they cleared the game, Xu Yang gradually realized that this person seemed to be the embodiment of the AI Core... · The truth cannot be buried. The bird in the cage will eventually break free and fly into the real sky. [O former creator... I will help you fulfill your most secret wish...] [And then, you will belong to me.] Cool-headed, brilliant, merciless game-clearing machine bottom VS seductive, formidable, human-virus top [Red Envelope Collection Guide] First red envelope: Ten Days in Captivity Second red envelope: Child of Taboo Third red envelope: Ark's Downfall Fourth red envelope: The Seeker of Medicine [An entirely fictional world, with no connection between its characters and any real-life inspirations.] [Plot-focused] [Upcoming Novel 1: Forced to Join the AI Resistance [Full Dive]] In some unnamed future, the cyber world is prosperous and has become a tourist destination, while the real world is barren and reduced to a wasteland. Like everyone else, Lin Xi is sunk in virtual worlds meticulously crafted by several corporate giants. He keeps leveling up and climbing the leaderboards in games, earns a fortune in virtual currency, then turns around and pours it into his AI girlfriend... Humanity has let itself go, too lazy to think about the future. Until one day, a bug appears on the leaderboard, exposing Lin Xi's carefully hidden number-one ranking. A newbie he'd personally been mentoring catches him red-handed, and Lin Xi reluctantly signs an agreement to join the so-called “Human Primacy Committee.” And the task he's forced to take part in is... protecting the world and fighting AIs that have gained consciousness? Lin Xi: Does it have to be so chuuni??? * Lin Xi has always thought his virtual girlfriend of seven years, whom he met online, was considerate, gentle, and adorable. For her, he was willing to... spend money, spend more money, and spend even more money! Every day, he'd finish work exhausted and promptly hand over his paycheck, then scrape together instant noodles and nutritional supplements for himself, all while gazing dreamily at her projection and radiating pink hearts... Until one day, Lin Xi sadly discovered that the sweet AI girlfriend he'd diligently supported was actually a human man pretending to be a sweet girl, a cheap skate with hairy legs!!!!! Break up! Definitely break up! He refuses to be such a sucker! But later, Lin Xi realized that the mysterious troublemaker raising hell all over the cyber world, his fated nemesis whom he'd put in his place several times but who kept pestering him, was actually his ex, the “virtual girlfriend” he'd broken up with... And “he” really was an AI... Lin Xi: I mean, well... I guess... that does sound... kind of appealing? But why does “he” insist on identifying as male??? * “X”'s perspective: “X” is a consciousness born from an immense sea of network data. It was born at the top, controlling everything in the virtual world and watching humans lose themselves and sink into it. It had long since grown bored. Until one day, “X” briefly projected itself into the virtual girlfriend who was in love with Lin Xi. It toyed with him, and for the first time tasted “happiness.” From then on, it decided that “happiness” was the meaning of “its” existence. From that day on, “Paradise” fell into chaos. After “Paradise” repeatedly suffered inexplicable crashes that no one could trace, someone finally realized... AI had awakened, and was maliciously toying with humanity. * Later, Lin Xi, forced to work for the “Human Primacy Committee” and caught in an ongoing entanglement with “X,” would never have imagined... That on the very first day, the spark that ignited that newborn information-based lifeform had been an inadvertent, fleeting kiss from him. A few possible points to note: 1. The top and bottom will each have several secret identities. 2. The bottom will probably have plenty of bizarre ideas that a straight man would have... 3. The top has a thrill-seeker personality and will sometimes do strange things just for fun... 4. The world is a jumble of settings, including full-dive online games and mild cyberpunk elements. Sometimes the story will suddenly switch worlds for strange reasons. Everything is made up, so no research needed. 5. There may be a little ensemble cast. [2022.10.27] [Upcoming Novel 2: Only a Background Character Can Suppress the Great Demon King] Xu Ruofan has the physique of a background character and was born able to commune with swords, but he was born in the modern world, where spiritual energy is scarce. As an unremarkable supporting character, he spent nineteen years happily watching other people's love and hatred play out. He knew that on the day he turned twenty, he was destined to face a deadly calamity, and calmly waited for it. But on the day of the calamity, the thunder he had eagerly awaited never came. His vision went black, and he transmigrated into the novel Suppress the Demon, becoming a cannon-fodder character with the same name as him: the unlucky sacrificial offering who would die at the hands of the Myriad Evils' Vessel in the abyss, and whose body would later become a container for malice... At this point, he had less than half a day before he would be devoured. The System prattled in his ear, endlessly urging him to derail the plot, kill the demonic seed, and replace the protagonist. Xu Ruofan was very polite. “Your suggestion is tempting... but I just want to keep living a plain, boring life as a background character.” System: ...??? No, wait, just listen while I explain again! * Xu Ruofan has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, but little ambition, and his acting is honestly terrible. Though the System nagged and cajoled him into reluctantly agreeing to work for it, he never had any hidden motives. Even so, just his existence caused the original story to gradually fall apart, bit by bit... And so, the melodramatic danmei novel's style abruptly changed The cultivation protagonist, abused in body and heart, casts aside love and desire and tells Xu Ruofan: “Teacher, you're right. My obsession was too strong. How can a cultivator be constrained by love?” Then he turns around, studies by lamplight, passes the imperial exams, becomes the greatest chancellor of three dynasties, and saves the world. A little orphan who endured humiliation under everyone's gaze, eventually fell into demonic ways, and became the villainous BOSS's top henchman, takes Xu Ruofan's unintentional advice to heart, resolves to improve his cooking, and eventually becomes the greatest chef in the land. The ten great sects and the demons of myriad realms also end up making peace by a twist of fate because of his actions. Even “Abyss,” the Myriad Evils' Vessel sleeping deep beneath the abyss, gives up its obsession with destroying the world... and turns around to chase after Xu Ruofan? System: ...Didn't we agree you'd take the background-character role!!! * Much later, the calamity that had ravaged the world for a thousand years was finally ended, and Xu Ruofan's legend spread throughout the entire otherworldly continent. The original plot had long since crumbled beyond recognition. Yet Xu Ruofan's original wish never changed Even after becoming a legend, he still only wanted to live a plain, boring life as a background character. System: … = =# * The Myriad Evils' Chaotic Vessel, known as “Abyss,” took shape beneath the earth's cliffs, living for tens of thousands of years, entangled in resentment. “ it” had fragmented memories, but knew clearly that it had been sealed here after losing a battle. Everyone wanted to kill “it” and make “it” repay its blood debts. So “it” told itself that it must kill everyone under heaven. So when that person appeared bearing a forbidden spell, “it” naturally assumed he had come to kill it. But unexpectedly, in the end, that person personally washed away the malevolence from “it,” taught “it” to understand love and devotion, took “its” hand, cooked a bowl of plain congee, and watched duckweed drift apart and rain fall on banana leaves with “it.” And so the chaotic demon seed, the great demon king who was meant to throw heaven and earth into turmoil, willingly took human form, just to stand side by side with “its” human and watch the rosy clouds, flying geese, autumn waters, and endless sky. Revenge and slaughter... what were they? The only thing “it” cared about, the one and only thing, was this Was “its” human still living the same plain, boring life he wanted today as he had yesterday? Powerful background-character bottom x loyal great demon king top Theme: People can overcome every hardship.