A Fourth Calamity, and an NPC

[Full-dive VR + wasteland + cyberpunk] [Dual secret identities] After the catastrophe, the world is left in ruins. Anyone who leaves the protection of the city walls suffers physical and mental contamination, becoming a mutated creature that wanders the wasteland. Investigating beyond the walls is the most dangerous job in the esper guild, and few dare accept it. Yet one day, the number of people taking the job suddenly skyrockets! Countless people head out beyond the walls, one after another, in an endless stream. #### Hot post on the player forum~ #### 1L: [I'm serious, having my sanity hit zero feels exactly like when I accidentally ate wild mushrooms as a kid. There are all these little people dancing on my nose!] 2L: [Holy crap, so if I take an out-of-walls investigation job, I can experience eating mushrooms without any of the pain?] 3L: [Red umbrella, white stalk, eat them and you'll all lie flat~] 4L: [Don't go eating random mushrooms. But an out-of-walls investigation might be worth a try.] 7L: [I wonder if I can experience what it's like to have subtitles appear whenever someone talks!] To see the legendary dancing little people and subtitles above people's heads, the players go all out against the mutated creatures! The guildmaster is moved to tears: "The future of human civilization is in the hands of these brave, adorable people." "Compared to their heroic deeds, their petty theft, reckless rampages, unauthorized modifications, and stink-bomb attack on the company's headquarters are nothing." "But I still can't believe these fearless heroes are so keen on free shopping and stealing toilet paper. Could it be true, as the rumors say, that they're cyberpsychos?" "I heard you examined their brains..." "Doctor, do you have any idea what's going on?" Huan Xia, a player using the Doctor secret identity on a second account: "..." Cyberpsychos, my foot. Players are just compulsive. They grab at anything they see. He just didn't expect a single post to turn the players' reputation around... A few days ago, those vandals were still wanted criminals. Huan Xia currently has three secrets: 1. He planted the stink bombs because the company withheld the Doctor's pay and made him work around the clock. 2. The wanted criminal X, who's been on the guild's bounty board for a month, is his main player account. 3. The last roll of toilet paper the guildmaster has been fretting about for days was also swiped by him... · The advantage of using two secret identities is that X handles outside work while the Doctor handles things inside, and they can share resources and information. But there's a downside too: The Doctor accidentally got too popular, and the players think he's a key NPC. They come harass him every day. [The Doctor performed brain surgery on me today and installed a new A-rank chip! He's so gentle. He cut my head in half with one slice, then asked if it hurt~] [I'm jealous. The Doctor refused to operate on me before because my modification rate was too high...] [Did you unlock a side quest, OP?] [I did. I'm going to the A+ radiation zone with the big shot X. Wooo~] P.S. The original blurb was a little unclear, so I changed it. The central joke is still the same. Theme: Live your life well!!