After a car accident, Li Zhao transmigrates into a game called 108-Day Survival Challenge.
If she can survive and clear a game crawling with serial killers, she can come back to life in the real world.
Li Zhao: This should be easy! I'll transform into a homebody and lie low until the end...
But after searching the whole house, she finds only three coins to her name. Outside, the landlord pounds on the door, telling her to get out if she can't pay the rent.
Well, then.
There's no way she can avoid working. Work is the soul of a worker, and she absolutely loves working.
Li Zhao looks at her ID card: [Specially Invited Detective of Linhai City Police Department]
Daily pay. Great!
A knack for attracting criminal suspects. Not great!
And this is a Lovecraftian world. Being a detective means being a walking disaster, liable to die at any moment.
Li Zhao: I think I can still turn this around.
She immediately flips over the remaining Talent and Skill cards.
Talent: [Criminals' Dream Girl]
Description: People with criminal tendencies have maxed-out favorability toward you.
Skill: [The Last Domino]
Description: What kind of collapse can a perfectly timed coincidence set off?
Li Zhao: ...Huh?
A spectacular failure at the doctoral level--
It's over!
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On the game forum, transmigrated players eagerly post guides, helping one another survive and trying to make it to the final day.
[Hot: Known Cult Order Overview]
[Hot: How to Join the Keepers]
[Hot: All My Teammates Went Crazy After I Joined the Investigation Team]
Among the serious-looking forum posts, a decidedly unserious thread suddenly pops up.
[Who's That Detective More Like a Serial Killer Than the Serial Killers?]
Original Poster: Longtime Linhai resident here. Let's do a roll call. Where's the latest murder scene?
1st reply: Reporting in. Nothing in the Diamond District.
2nd reply:! Didn't they say she was under supervision now?
3rd reply: What are you talking about? The police are still counting on her to solve cases. How could they really keep her under control? Though every time she draws a conclusion, the scene ends up looking like something out of Final Destination...
Elsewhere, Li Zhao is looking for clues when she sneezes.
She looks at the criminal suspect who's just died on the spot and the collapsed building, then turns to her partner. "You saw it too. I didn't do anything."
Partner: "You mean this criminal was already in pieces when he walked in?"
Li Zhao, with complete confidence: "Yeah. What else?"
Partner: "Yeah, right!"
Damn it, this walking map-editing machine is going to put the budget in the red again, argh!
Content warnings:
1. Lovecraftian horror + steampunk + multiple transmigrators + unconventional mystery + power fantasy. It's fundamentally a power fantasy, and the mystery isn't especially complex.
2. Every player has a Talent and a Skill, and supernatural abilities exist.
3. The female lead has low morals and will do anything to achieve her goals. She's no sweetheart, so don't let her fool you.
4. The female lead is surrounded by people who love her unrequitedly. Whoever she likes is the male lead.
Theme: The epic of humanity is an ode to courage