After a car accident, Wei Mu unexpectedly bound himself to a System and survived. He also gained the golden finger ability to travel freely between the game world and reality.
The System sent him into Infinite Otherworld, a full-dive simulation game he had played before, reputed to offer the highest degree of freedom. There, he had to play NPCs and keep the plot on track.
Not just one NPC, but a whole bunch.
Before he transmigrated, Wei Mu had been the sort of player who created characters to suit whatever ideas came to mind. After transmigrating, he could still use all of his characters, big and small.
The game world was just as freewheeling. Centered on a vast central continent, it spread outward, with immortal cultivation sects covering the east and Western fantasy-style medieval monsters in the west.
Infinite Otherworld changed from a single-player game into an online game. Then a massive influx of players, the Fourth Calamity, arrived, and the entire plot collapsed.
Wei Mu, playing an NPC, decided to put on his secret identities and guide the Fourth Calamity from the shadows to protect the world.
The only problem was that in the world's lore, those identities had long since become untouchable legends, the very definition of a beloved figure everyone longs for.
When the locals and players came into contact with them, they went wild.
[Immortal Lord Ji Xiran once swept across fourteen provinces with a sword cold as frost in his youth. But time has passed, and now only bloodstained white robes remain, with no trace of the man he once was. Official account, how could you be so cruel! That angst broke me on the spot QAQ]
[Arnold is the child of the gods. He could have stayed far away from all danger, but his heart held only his people and his teacher. He accepted his sealing without complaint (closes eyes). My Arnold, my Arnold!]
[The Master of the Central Mountain Range is an ancient legend who has slept for over a thousand years, with countless subordinates still waiting to pledge their loyalty. No wonder he's the continent's most beloved figure!]
The game's original inhabitants and the Fourth Calamity cheered the return of these legends, or wept as the story dealt them heartbreaking blows. The forums were in an uproar every day.
Wei Mu took off his headphones and quietly left the forum.
Unexpectedly, the prophecy of the world's end arrived right then.
Wei Mu was the only person in the world who wasn't the least bit panicked.
After all, who could have guessed that the two figures said to have created this otherworld, the "Lords of Revelation" and the "Heavenly Emperor of the Divine Realm," were also both his secret identities?
Theme: Righteousness