Global Crime Solving [Infinite]

An invasion by advanced star civilizations turns Blue Star into a wasteland, and humanity's souls are uploaded into a virtual world.

This place is filled with brutal murder scenes and baffling, twisted mysteries. Only those who clear the challenges can earn a precious chance to survive.

Beyond the virtual world, countless beings from advanced civilizations flock to watch this "fight for survival."

They comment, tip, and interact, and some even enter the game world themselves.

By the standards of advanced civilizations, the average mental strength of people from Blue Star doesn't even reach Grade D, a level considered good-for-nothing.

Mu Yuan served for years in an overseas military security organization, with exceptional fitness and reflexes. Yet when faced with the crushing force of hyperdimensional mental power, she could only watch helplessly as she fell on that filthy, narrow road, unable to do a thing.

She had thought she was destined to die. But when she opened her eyes, she was standing on a chaotic nineteenth-century wharf. In the darkness in the distance, a gigantic ocean liner was slowly making its way toward her...

In this bizarre, twisted virtual world, she is a persecuted student, a prostitute on the brink of death, a daughter offered as a sacrifice, and a double agent walking a tightrope. She thought her soul would be imprisoned here forever, until one day she discovered that people from extraterrestrial realms could enter this world, and that she could touch their souls.

Side story: In the central square of the virtual world, nine golden floating steles tower high above. One day, a drab name suddenly appears above the rows of golden lettering.

This person keeps to themself, never lingers in the central square, has no friends, joins no organizations, and never visits the forums. They keep an unusually low profile, yet climb the rankings at a dizzying pace and level up like mad. One popular forum post about them is titled "Some Theories About a Certain Ranking-Climbing Expert." The most-liked theory claims that the account named Mu Yuan is actually the secret identity of some damned extraterrestrial.

Then one day, this person enters the "Amnesia Instance," known as a graveyard for the dead. What makes this instance so terrifying is that in addition to solving puzzles at the highest difficulty, players must endure extreme mental stimulation to awaken extraterrestrials whose brains are completely dead.

Tentative worlds:

1. Ghost Ship (Complete)

No one survives aboard the ship.

2. Jack the Ripper (Complete)

Find the culprit before you become a victim.

3. Too Many Men, Too Few Women (Complete)

The battle of the sexes has begun.

4. The Unlucky Guy Who Fights Back (Amnesia Instance) (Complete)

Life is a dark comedy. In the face of the truth, even constant bad luck seems insignificant.

5. Empress of the Realm for Eighteen Days (Complete)

A common-born princess cracks a murder case.

6. Golden Gate Hotel (Complete)

Tales of intrigue at a hotel: spies and counterspies, pursuit and counter-pursuit.

7. Deadly High School (Complete)

There are thirteen rules to follow on campus. Be sure to obey them.

8. Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide (Amnesia Instance) (Final Arc, Complete)

A Yellow River corpse retriever, yin-yang talismans, crossing between the worlds of the living and the dead, and releasing the dead from their obsessions.

9. Bonus Stories (Ongoing)

Interstellar space & newcomers & Blue Star

Reader's Guide:

[1. This story is entirely fictional. Any historical dynasties mentioned are imaginary and do not allude to real-world events.]

[2. This is an unconventional mystery with an endless-leveling progression. There is no male lead in the main story. The female lead has ambiguous relationships, but no romantic feelings for men or women. One-sided feelings from men toward her are present, but there is no pure love.]

[My upcoming story: Nine-Level Haunted Tower: From Instance Slaughters to the Real World. If you're interested, feel free to take a look. You're welcome to bookmark it and leave a little footprint~]

Blurb:

In the year 289 of the New Era, technology is highly advanced, but class divisions are deeply entrenched. The entire world resembles a pyramid, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, divided into distinct levels by clear barriers.

Those at the top of the pyramid lord it over everyone else, while those at the bottom each struggle in their own way. They are like parallel worlds, and the path upward is almost completely closed to ordinary people.

In Chang Ying's senior year of high school, Beiyue University, the country's top-ranked university, which never admits students from lower levels, opened five places. Chang Ying was one of the five admitted that year.

Just six months later, while the widespread publicity and interviews from back then were still fresh in everyone's minds, she became a notorious murderer.

The Chang family didn't believe Chang Ying had killed anyone.

Her father ran around trying to help her, then crashed into a mountainside while driving exhausted and died on the spot.

Her brother, Chang Yu, was caught in a street fight on his way home and died in an alley.

Her mother went mad overnight and burned herself to death at home.

Later, someone came "specifically" to tell her that her family had been destroyed.

The day before her execution, someone knocked on the door of Chang Ying's cell and slipped a note through a narrow gap.

She recognized the owner of that hand. It belonged to the inmate next door. The two of them had "communicated" a few times during meal delivery, usually like this:

"You're not eating?"

Chang Ying stayed silent.

The other person took that as a yes and took the food without a second thought.

This person proposed a strange deal with her, but before it could be completed, a massive black tower appeared out of nowhere.

These eighty-one inexplicable nine-level haunted towers appeared across the globe, sweeping through and overturning the entire world.

Everyone selected by a haunted tower receives a "medical reexamination notice." Chang Ying received one too.

Written on it in ancient characters were the words:

"Dear Ms. Chang Ying, please report to the Medical Examination Center of Chang'an First People's Hospital for your follow-up examination on time. Failure to do so will be regarded as voluntarily forfeiting your admission. Thank you for your cooperation."

Theme: Struggle to survive.