The Cannon Fodder Clears the Game with a Body Full of Debuffs [Infinite]

(I'm planning to unlock this story. I'll write more when I have the time and feel like it.)

The day Ye E'e entered the escape game, the other players heard the game's built-in background voice: "A cannon fodder with a defective sense of perception has entered."

What Ye E'e heard was: "A...%#der has entered."

Having lost the ability to tell reality from illusion, Ye E'e turned to the monster doctor in a bloodstained lab coat. "Could you prescribe me some medicine? I think there's still a chance to save me."

The monster doctor: ???

The other players: As expected of cannon fodder.

Later, Ye E'e ignored every monster's threats, found the right clues, pinpointed hidden monsters in countless illusions and blew them to pieces, then fearlessly spent the night chatting by candlelight with a boss who called everyone "little friend." Every day was more fun than being at school.

The players she carried to victory: So she's a big shot whose surname is Cannon? I'm a fan!

Ye E'e: "The only downside is that my condition seems to be getting worse. Can a place this happy really exist?"

The players she carried to victory: "Big Shot Cannon, just keep being yourself!"

Ye E'e didn't hear them clearly. She took out the monster doctor she'd carefully kept and had it prescribe her a little more medicine.

The monster doctor: "Players these days are terrifying."

The players: "Monster doctors these days are terrifying." (Too scared to badmouth the big shot.)

After Ye E'e had taken enough pills, she finally met the mastermind behind every level in her mental world.

The mastermind: "I am the Lord of the Infinite Abyss. Ignorant human, how dare you disturb my slumber?"

Ye E'e, whose medicine wasn't working: "You're right, it's time to rest. Could you turn into a plushie for me to cuddle?"

The mastermind: "Do you know what you're saying? No, do you know what I'm saying?"

Later, Ye E'e, already feared by monsters everywhere, attached a new charm to her backpack zipper, one that made the monsters even more terrified.

The monsters stared at the charm. "Wait, was the final boss already defeated and turned into a charm? When did that happen?"

[The author rambles]

1. This story has a male lead, and he hangs from the heroine's backpack zipper. The heroine is eighteen and has just started her first year of university.

2. The heroine's debuffs aren't limited to her hearing. The author will add whatever comes to mind. As long as she wins, that's all that matters.

3. The author thought long and hard about the protagonist's name. It really suits the story's vibe. The vibe: when she encounters a monster, she first flashes a peace sign, then laughs, "E'e'e." See? There's nothing to be afraid of.

4. Check out my upcoming story, A Strange Talent Like You Is Just What Our Company Needs [Infinite].

Upcoming Story Blurb

The moment a newcomer carrying a cat carrier and pushing a shopping cart appeared in the Infinite World, every player thought someone in their instance was definitely going to get fed to a monster.

The newcomer seemed to have the sort of gentle temperament that could only be cultivated in peaceful times. So delicate, so caring. She would surely be devoured without a trace by the sly monsters in the instance and the veteran players who used others as stepping stones.

The mid- and low-level players quietly kept their distance from this newcomer, who looked like she wouldn't last long, while the top players grinned and lured her into traps.

Who could have guessed that the newcomer would push up her glasses, stuff the ghost that had chased the players through half the instance into her backpack, then load the final boss, whom even veteran players could only avoid, into her shopping cart?

Players: ?

Does she think she's lived too long?

Then the newcomer swiped a bank card in midair and vanished. All that remained was the sound of the instance automatically charging her account.

Players: ??

Players: ???

What kind of strategy is this?

"What are you doing in our instance?"

Ye Mu Lian took out a specially made bun and tossed it to the hungry Gugu ghosts around her. "Feeding the monsters."

The handsome final boss was furious. "I heard there's a new Infinite horror company next door. Its CEO keeps coming to my place to poach my staff."

Ye Mu Lian put the final boss in her shopping cart and gave him a scratch under the chin. Her voice was gentle. "Our company needs a strange talent like you."

The boss who had just been poached: Poaching staff right under the boss's nose. Isn't that going a little too far?

Theme: No matter what you turn into, believe that you're the cutest!