He's Fiercer Than the Boss [Infinite]

Damn this System for messing with people.

Lin Di woke up one day to find himself trapped in a horror instance. He had no memories and no equipment, and for a while he survived by beating monsters up with his bare fists.

Other players: What the hell? What kind of awesome item lets you fight monsters barehanded, big shot?!

Lin Di: ...?

So you guys have equipment?

So you guys have memories?

Lin Di poked the System. It remained perfectly calm: [No worries, this is normal. Every life has value, so players must make sure to use everything to its fullest!]

Lin Di: Got it. This thing is no good.

Unbelievable. He was the only newcomer in this instance. Everyone else was a veteran player.

The veteran players cowered behind Lin Di, pointing at the monsters and shouting, "Big shot! Those are the ones bullying us!"

Monsters: ...

Monsters: D-Don't you think monster accessories are cuter than human accessories?

Monsters: Look at them, they all have two eyes and one nose. We come in every shape and size! Some of us have seven arms and legs, some have tentacles, some have billions of eyes... Aren't we beautiful?!

Before Lin Di could recover from the bizarre scene of monsters and players competing for his attention, another lunatic showed up. He earnestly suggested to Lin Di, "Hey! Doesn't that monster look like a fathead carp without a body? Let's make fish head with chopped chili!"

No scallions or ginger to get rid of the fishy smell, no spices to mask the flavor, and they wanted to make fish head with chopped chili amid all these corpses and the stench of decay?

Lin Di: ...I'll pass.

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Overpowered, taciturn, and a bit of a neat freak, shou X crazy, purely human, chaotic absurdist gong

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1. The shou has a nonhuman true form. He is essentially not human and comes with a built-in cheat.

2. The gong is human, but his mind isn't quite human. He's unhinged around people he doesn't know, and completely crazy once he gets close to them.

3. Romance: They start out as comrades who get along well enough. When they realize they're cut from the same cloth, things heat up and they enthusiastically make love. Eventually, the flames die down and they start dating. There is some mutual exploitation along the way, and they may briefly become enemies, but in the end they overcome every obstacle and move forward together.

4. Mild horror. Most problems are solved through violence. There is some deduction, but not much.

[Adding a new upcoming novel]

The Snow Bunting Bears the Brunt of [The Fourth Calamity]

Bai Mu arrived in a strange continent.

And discovered that he wasn't human.

He had turned into a tiny snow bunting.

A gentle breeze blew, and the little snowball of a bird plunged into the snow and started rolling around.

Just learning to fly nearly cost Bai Mu his life.

After a lot of struggling, Bai Mu discovered that he had only completed the beginner's quest. He still had many more quests to do, bringing all kinds of changes to this world. Completing quests would earn him varying amounts of experience and items of wildly varying value.

In short, complete quests to get items and level up.

The Fourth Calamity, huh?

Bai Mu thought he understood that.

Only after finishing the basic quests did Bai Mu realize something was wrong. The little snow bunting's body was merely an imaginary shell, not his real body. His real body was deep inside a castle, fast asleep because of a curse placed on him by invaders from another world.

Bai Mu: Wait a second...

Bai Mu: I'm not part of The Fourth Calamity???

[Status System: Quest confirmed. Awakening true body... Failed. Please complete quests and try to awaken it again.]

[Status System: Quest issued: Resist The Fourth Calamity and save the native inhabitants.]

Bai Mu: ...

The native inhabitants included goblins and beastfolk running all over the place, beautiful and alluring winged folk and elves, as well as the flying horses and unicorns that had just passed by, plus wyverns, giant elk, and all sorts of magical demi-human species he'd never heard of or seen before, whose names he had no idea how to pronounce.

Bai Mu: Let me ask you something. What is my body? I mean, what do I look like to the players?

[Winged Demigod]

[One of the last survivors of the previous universe · Hand That Controls the World · MVP · Fallen Black Wing · Former Angel of Glory · Ominous Snow Bunting · Erlnilo]

Bai Mu successfully extracted the important information.

Bai Mu: ...What does "one of" mean?

Shou (Snow Bunting): Lifelong single · Career first · Diligent and conscientious · Erlnilo

Gong (Blackbird): Younger, cunning, cross-dressing troublemaker, pretends to be young and cute · Lanina

Thematic message: Hope is an eternal flame. It can be buried deep, but it will never go out.