Selling Dungeon Guides in an Infinite Game

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With incidents involving infinite games happening more and more often, the real world has set up special training classes to prepare people for emergencies.

Yu Shu, who is in poor health, never expected to enter an infinite game himself. Worse still, he was the only player who hadn't attended a training class.

Unable to afford the classes, Yu Shu could only be extra careful. But in his very first instance, his glasses were destroyed, and then... Yu Shu, who had yin-yang eyes, saw countless player ghosts floating around him.

"These newbies are clearly useless. They're nowhere near as good as we were."

"They can still attend training classes now? If we hadn't had zero experience back then, we wouldn't have been eliminated."

"Why does that player keep staring over here? Can he see us?!"

"..."

Yu Shu hurriedly lowered his head. He never expected the ghosts to float over and give him a thorough rundown of their experience, telling him to do his best and clear the game. Only one was different.

A stone-faced man walked up to Yu Shu. "Let me live inside your body."

Yu Shu asked timidly, "Can I say no?"

The man: "Sure. Then I'll eat you."

Yu Shu: "TAT, then you can move in."

*

Even in the game, Yu Shu's body was so weak he still needed medicine. He could only use a secret identity to sell the ghostly veterans' guides to the instances and buy medicine with the money.

Everyone sneeringly called him a medicine jar, saying he'd fall over at the slightest touch and only cleared instances thanks to insanely good luck.

Until an S-rank instance, where Yu Shu was scared unconscious by an NPC once again.

This time, though, he woke up and calmly crushed the NPC's head. The next second, he flung his blood-covered hand away in terror. "Didn't we agree you wouldn't do that?"

The other players hadn't recovered from his violent actions when the pale young man fell into an eerie silence for a moment and spoke in a completely different voice. "Sorry. I won't do it again. Don't cry."

The other players: ?

Later, whenever Yu Shu caught the other players giving him a look of pity and bafflement, he had to painstakingly explain, "I'm not mentally ill, and I don't have split personalities. Really!"

The players looked at him with even more affection. "All right, all right. We believe you."

Yu Shu: "...!"

QAQ.

[A cautious, careful, sickly receiver who works hard to earn money for medicine x a ruthless, quiet seme who gets annoyed and wants to kill NPCs at the drop of a hat]

The story may change before it begins. The version published will be definitive.

I've changed the original idea because I ran out of inspiration. If you're attached to it, feel free to take it with you.

Updated 2023.6.26

Theme: Finding love and warmth on a thrilling, dangerous journey.