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Ming Zhao has recently been playing a little full-immersion chef RPG. Collecting ingredients and cooking dishes unlocks different recipes, and feeding the customers earns their affection. It's a relaxing way to unwind.
Lately, though, she has noticed that the cooking locations are a little terrifying, and the ingredients have turned into strange things like "xx corpse parts" and "fresh brain matter." The food she makes even glows green and looks completely inedible.
Luckily, her customers don't seem to notice anything wrong and happily accept the food she gives them. It's just... there seems to be a problem with her full-immersion game pod, and she can't log out manually.
But it's fine, she thinks.
How scary can a relaxing little game that's only 3 GB really be? She can log out once she beats it!
*
In 2035, a threshold space called [the Backrooms] invades Blue Star. No matter what you're doing, you could randomly enter one of its levels and become lost there.
With no water or food, mental attacks, invincible entities, dreamcore... countless people go insane or die there. Yet a handful of lucky ones awaken professions and gain supernatural abilities.
Among all the wanderers, however, there is one big shot who has cleared 999 levels. Her codename is [Chef].
She plays completely by her own rules and is unbelievably bold. She not only keeps testing the limits of suicide, but firmly believes she's just playing a game and livestreaming it. Her mental state is terrifyingly stable.
Because of her, the [Backrooms Survival Rules] added a special rule:
"If you encounter an explorer who claims to be a player, [Chef], make sure to cling to her. She may be kind and approachable, but this woman can summon beings even more terrifying than the entities in the Backrooms."
They are savage and horrifying, yet... they love to eat, and they even call out in inhuman languages:
Ma'am, hungry, feed us!
Please, please, give the monster cat a treat!
(Very shy. Even when full, it doesn't say a word and just keeps eating.)
*
One day, Ming Zhao finally remembers that she needs to quit the game.
She goes to the forum to report a bug to the administrator. But after waiting and waiting, what she gets is not a System repair, but a mysterious anonymous reply.
The poster pleads with her, apparently at the end of their rope:
Ms. [Chef], please stop misunderstanding! [The Backrooms] is real!
The entities really do eat people, and the Main God really exists!!!
The friendly NPCs are human survivors. The ones in your livestream who cuddle up to you are soulless evil spirits!!
Ming Zhao falls silent.
She steps on the entity she has beaten into begging for mercy, then looks at the livestream comments wailing, "Babe, you figured it out!" Finally, she turns around and sees that the person sitting obediently in her restaurant and eating is none other than one of the most dangerous and mysterious monsters mentioned on the forum.
Rumor has it that this creature is savage and bloodthirsty, cruel and heartless, with countless long, pitch-black tails. Even trapped in a lightless hell, it remains an evil presence feared by the Main God.
But now... in Ming Zhao's cozy little restaurant, he has put away his true form. His lashes droop, and his pale eyes look at her with gentle unease. The many tails behind him flutter anxiously as he can only plead:
"Boss, don't... don't listen to them."
"As long as you don't abandon me, I'll do anything."
[Aren't players a kind of higher-dimensional being, too?]
[Copy of the blurb saved as evidence on 25.7.2]
[This novel began serialization on 25.8.15]
Character designs by the wonderful Paopaolong Qishi. Thanks for the artwork~
--- Blurb for my next novel, The Pixelated Lady Lord ---
Yu Qi is a seasoned player of civilization-building games, with countless crimes to her name.
She knows all kinds of deranged tactics, including but not limited to:
Cut off the water and food, kill a few people, and the happiness rating will turn green.
Set the tax rate to 95% so nobody can raise a rebel army.
Turn prisoners into human-meat preserves to solve both the prisoner and food problems.
But one day, she discovers an unknown lord simulator.
[The First Lord in the Universe: A Pixel-Style Healing and Development Simulator ^_^]
Yu Qi (clicks): Let's see how it tastes.
Then she discovers that she has transmigrated with her game-console System.
And transmigrated into a chibi, two-head-tall pixel person.
*
In Yu Qi's eyes, the whole world is made up of colorful blocks.
But the people of [B1211 Dead Zone] have no idea.
All they know is that a woman actually dares to come alone to this cursed, inauspicious place.
She dresses in a riot of colors, carelessly matching hats, shoes, winter clothes, and shorts. Ask her why, and she'll say she wears whatever has the best stats.
She strolls into people's homes as if nobody else is there, but doesn't steal their precious crystals. She just rummages through drawers and cupboards, looking for the random junk that interests her.
She even knocks arrogantly on every resident's door and announces, "From now on, I'm your lord."
The dead-zone residents: A lord? What's that? Can you eat it?
Someone mutters mockingly, "That fearless little girl will soon be infected by the dead zone's massive radiation and mutate."
Then the next day, everyone sees her standing in the square without a scratch, waving at them.
Yu Qi: "What are you standing around for? Your lord has assigned a task. Go fix the oxygen station!"
"The power station, the farm, the multipurpose toilet, and the electrical system, hmm... why are you all looking at me?"
Someone asks, "How come... you don't get hurt?"
Yu Qi: "Oh, that's because I don't have a health bar!"
*
At first, the people of the [B1211] Dead Zone don't understand why this woman, who clearly isn't poor, has been sent to this land of demons.
Later, under her leadership, they overcome radiation, disease, poverty, and discrimination.
They begin to sincerely honor her as, The Greatest Lord.
Yu Qi: ? But I only wanted to enslave you all mercilessly!!!
Theme: Live positively and be happy every day
Bound to a Survival Game with a Handsome Stranger
Female Prisoner, But Also a Little God!
I'm Just a Pixel Person
99 Lives to Win Over My Heartless Dao Master
Even Beastfolk Love Mary Sues [Noble Academy]
The Top Student in Her Grade [Infinite]
Becoming the Sea God Starts with a Cyber Mermaid [Infinite]
In the Apocalypse, She Only Wants to Build a Career [Infinite]
. . . Why is it too serious? [Lie down], the league won't be a God-killing reunion, right? I feel that the protagonist in my mind is already OOC, maybe thanks to the recovery of memory, [changed] I like the previous protagonist's attitude of playing it as a game, but this chapter makes me feel that the protagonist has changed from a player The person in the game has become the leader of the righteous path. Who can understand my discomfort? If I had been looking at the protagonist with an upright and rebellious spirit at the beginning, then I would not have come to this book. Uh-huh, I really like the heroine who has not recovered her memory before. Why is she burdened with so much? . .
Seeing this, I always feel that God and Mephisto are the same thing. Mephisto split himself into five parts as the main god. Why doesn't God take out his senses and become Mephisto🤔? Although the two "gods" go back and forth, they feel very lonely, as if they have nothing but each other and the so-called game of cards. And their attitude towards winning or losing is also very vague. When thinking about the heroine's position, I thought that this is actually not a game between two gods, but between gods and humans. It was strange to God's random desire to win and lose before. She didn't have much control over the card game, but she tortured the heroine with the iron-blooded red card. Now thinking about it, maybe the two gods who played cards from the beginning were on the same side, [Good Luck Lotus] [Good Luck Lotus] [Good Luck Lotus]
Finished with flowers ~ A very novel horror food article. I don't know why there are so few comments, but I have been aroused to be addicted to it when I read it several times. I wish the author will get better and better as he writes.
Emmm... I have been following the update for a long time. I really like this story. It is lively and interesting, very graphic, and the characters are well created. But today's ending is a little too hasty 😂. I thought there were still many stories to describe, but I didn't expect so much plot to be covered in just one chapter... I'm a little surprised. But it took so long to write so much, and the author also worked hard. See you in the next book.
Aha? Are you willing to die like this? Is it so easy? I thought there would be a big fight.
520 Met ah ah ah
Wow, the male protagonist has a face.
Hungry
Omg, Lulu is dead
Oh no! They won't die, will they?