Surviving in Another World with a Secret Identity

Yuan Shen, formerly an ordinary tourist from Earth, now an unlucky soul in another world.

From the start, he gets a deluxe package deal with an evil book parasite, along with a survival mode set in a Lovecraftian Western fantasy world that could go mad at any moment...

The sun and moon are one, the stars are frozen points of light, fallen gods whisper people into madness, and the magical toxins drifting through the air are dust that amounts to a slow suicide.

The summoner's corpse lies nearby, while the evil book cackles, "Submit, mortal!"

The good news: Yuan Shen's mental strength is absurdly powerful. He turns the tables and pins the evil book inside his left eye as a colored contact lens.

The bad news: Whenever it gets the chance, the damn book tries to control him and turn him evil. It nags like a goat at the village entrance.

To avoid becoming a puppet, Yuan Shen grabs the dead mage and creates a blond, blue-eyed young hunter as a secret identity on the spot. Then he downs poison to get his real body thrown in jail, and develops a bunch of new functions for the evil book, such as "wilderness survival tips," "continent-wide GPS," and "wholesale teleportation scrolls for getting out of trouble."

The Book of Tatar collapses: ??? So you're so noble, so amazing, you treat an evil book like a multipurpose toolbox? What kind of person would even think of doing that?!

Yuan Shen, sincerely: Making full use of things is perfectly reasonable.

#Making trouble in another world (crossed out) Surviving by starting with a secret identity#

While the blond hunter Lak specializes in hunting monsters and occasionally serves as a sacrifice, the information broker Ilya pretends to be a noble, signing official documents with one hand while sending every slave trader to the gallows with the other;

While the faceless assassin Soder balances the head of a fallen-god cultist on his knife's tip, the wandering physician Blanc holds free clinics in the slums in his white coat;

While the Death Raven's silent whistle announces the location of a rift into the realm of the dead, the lesser deity Lantern Bearer guides the lost through the rift;

When the mysterious organization "Black Ring" gives the Church a headache, terrifies the nobility, and makes the fallen-god cult delete their accounts and run overnight, the entire continent wonders who the "Master of the Black Ring" is...

The traveler Yuan Shen strolls leisurely past the scene, occasionally marveling at how quickly rumors take off as the people of this other world fill in the blanks with their own imaginations. He also can't help remarking that his friend Yuen, who always appears at crucial moments, is like a walking cheat code.

"Want some hot soup?"

"Shall I bandage your wound?"

"Want to tear down the cult's lair together?"

Yuan Shen feels both suspicious and touched: I don't know what he's after, but he's such a good friend!

The Book of Tatar shrieks: He's after your bizarre thought process, which has turned me into a snarky sidekick, you idiot! Run! This guy's so friendly he seems fake!

But Yuen stays by Yuan Shen's side...

They fix the orphanage roof together, grow mushrooms together in the rift into the realm of the dead, and even report the Church to the righteous gods when they happen to pass by a Church arrest scene. When Yuan Shen is on the verge of death, Yuen shouts even louder than the Book of Tatar.

A perfect straight man, a reliable partner, his one and only friend.

Yuan Shen: That's why I never asked where Yuen came from ∩_∩

Yuen: ...:)

■Reader Notice■

1. "What I hold fast to may indeed be the personal madness that people despise, but this is the resistance of someone far from home, unwilling to sink without a fight."

"Whatever the ending may be, it will be as I wish."

2. No CP. The transmigrator has no love in his heart. To the protagonist, his secret identities are just tools to be "serviced regularly and remade when broken."

3. This was originally planned as a prequel to two novels with the same protagonist in my collection, but my ideas have changed over the past few years. Some settings, including the ending, have changed considerably. Please understand.

Theme: Even when trapped in the long night, keep reaching for the stars and the sun.