A Guide to Playing an Ordinary Person in the Interstellar World

[Complete] When Song Lianjing was a marshal, he devoted himself body and soul to the Federation and risked his life for humanity. Yet on the eve of victory, he was betrayed and killed, buried in the sea of stars with not a trace of his remains left behind. He closed his eyes, then opened them, only to discover that he had been reborn a hundred years later as a sickly man on a remote planet, ground down until there was no way out. He couldn't win at the rat race, but he could lie flat. Given a second chance at life, Song Lianjing decided to work as little as possible and enjoy as much as he could. He would laze around without a care and pet cats to his heart's content. For that, he joined a repair shop run by the most laid-back bunch imaginable. The shop manager was missing most of the time. The accountant gamed through the night but could never rank up. The repair technician was disliked by everyone, even dogs, and refused to work. Their new temp worker coughed up blood every three steps and spent his days petting cats, sleeping, and gaming. Everyone thought the shop was bound to go under sooner or later. Yet somehow, one priceless treasure after another showed up at its door, and one big name after another from the news lined up to meet them. -- Then the alien species invaded the remote planet, baring their fangs at its residents. Just as everyone gave in to despair, a flash of cold light appeared, and every last alien collapsed. The young man, still looking sleepy, stepped over the corpses and calmly asked, "We're one short for a murder mystery game. Anyone in?" Everyone: ... They didn't know that the sickly man had once been a spirited young hero, or that he bore a name once known in every household and now treated as taboo. --They say that wherever his sword pointed, he was undefeated and invincible. -- On the third day of his plan to lie flat, Song Lianjing warmly greeted the repair shop's accountant, the Federation's chief engineer: "You came to be a slacker too!" In the fourth month of his plan, he caught the interstellar military academy's principal showing his hand: "Why is this guy here too?" On day N of his plan, Song Lianjing looked at his rival, who was calmly losing his mind: ... Why has the whole slacker scene gone crazy too?! Forget it. Let's all go crazy together. [Reading Guide] A calm-but-unhinged widower gong x a scheming, sickly shou determined to lie flat An imaginary interstellar setting. I made up all the worldbuilding. Blurb written on 2021.12.25 [Preorder: Your Stats Are Mine (Infinite), blurb below] After losing his memory, Ning Buwang was dragged into a horror game called The Land of Delusion and became a player. The game's death rate was close to one hundred percent. The "audience" took pleasure in betting on players' deaths, and only the few who survived could claim points from the prize pool. Ning Buwang was gravely ill, and the exclusive weapon he drew was a feather pen with no offensive power whatsoever. Everyone bet he would be the first to die. Only Ning Buwang discovered that he could see the status panels of every monster and player in each instance. His exclusive weapon's skill let him spend points to swap his status panel with someone else's for a limited time. Ning Buwang looked at his own panel, with its pitifully low stats, his nonexistent points, and the ever-growing death prize pool riding on him: I've got a plan.jpg * So Ning Buwang went into full self-destruct mode in the instances: ignoring the NPCs' warnings, violating the bosses' taboos, wrecking an evil god's shrine with an execution countdown ticking over his head... The "audience" kept raising their bets on his death, certain he would die in the next instance. Yet every time, Ning Buwang escaped a supposedly unavoidable death and walked away with all their points. The "audience": ... No way. He survived that too? Then Ning Buwang angered the game's most terrifying hidden boss. The instant divine punishment descended from the heavens-- The young man turned his pen into a sword and chopped the evil god into mincemeat. Everyone: ??! * [Hidden Status Panel] [Name]: Ning Buwang [Health]: ??? [Attack]: ??? The legendary, unsociable strongest player took the young man's hand and placed a reverent kiss upon it-- "In this land of delusion, you are the one and only god." An icy mountain gong x a death-seeking, gloomy savior shou Theme: Love life