I Have to Keep Checking In Today, Too [Infinite]

Qing Lian was an ordinary horror-game NPC. She had planned to work peacefully until retirement, but then a System bug loaded her identity card as a player.

Which led directly to

NPC time clock: Beep. Employee information not found. Clock-in failed. If you fail to clock in before the level ends, you will be marked absent and lose your wages and performance bonus.

Qing Lian: ???

My head can be chopped off and my blood can be spilled, but my wages cannot be docked!

Luckily, players turn into NPCs after they die. So she tried every possible way to get herself killed, hoping to become a victim as soon as possible.

But it turned out that the other NPCs and BOSSes were also seasoned workplace veterans, masters of slacking off who couldn’t care less about taking on extra work.

So some players began to notice that something strange seemed to have appeared in the perilous levels:

A young female ghost shrieked, “You played with my feelings! I’ll make you pay with your lives, ”

Qing Lian: I’m the scumbag who hurt you! Look at me!

The ghost floated past her without a glance and started chasing the others.

Everyone else: ?

A ghost child crawled out of a black coffin. “Mommy doesn’t want me anymore. I want to find Mommy, ”

Qing Lian: That’s right, I’m your mom! I even brought your crib!

The ghost child deftly went around her and began chasing everyone else, crying.

Everyone else: ??

In a gloomy old house, an old man smiled with his eyes closed. “Run. Anyone I look at will die, ”

Qing Lian stood right in his face. “I’m ready. Open your eyes!”

The next second, the old man’s head rotated 180 degrees. “Hmm, looks like you all ran fast enough...”

Everyone else: ???

Where’s the authority of your horror levels? The rules? Your dignity?

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The first rule for working NPCs on Joyful Island: Never work overtime!

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Reading guide: A goofy, feel-good story. Length undecided. Hope it makes you smile.

Note: This story shares a world with my completed novel, All-Girls’ Dorm Escape [Infinite], and will have a few crossover appearances. You can read this without having read the other story.

You might also like my completed novel: All-Girls’ Dorm Escape [Infinite]

(Complete)

When your dormitory becomes a game, how do you survive?

At eight in the evening, university life was just starting to come alive in the dormitory buildings.

Suddenly, the lights went out.

Every university in the world was plunged into darkness.

“Ding-ding-ding, clang-clang-clang!”

“Dear students, welcome to the [Dormitory Survival Game]. Let the fun dorm life begin!”

Blood flowed from the sink. The space inside the bed curtains turned into another dimension. Zombies battered the dorm door, and countless eyes peered in from beyond the balcony.

Water shortages, food shortages, extreme conditions, and threats to survival.

“Student guidelines: The supreme rules of dormitory survival, ”

“First, the living cannot leave their dorm rooms.”

“Second, protect your dorm room.”

“Third, protect your roommates.”

When Tang Xinjue heard the eerie singing, she was taking apart the packaging on some household supplies with a toothbrush in her mouth.

[Congratulations, students! The objects in your hands will now become your supernatural abilities!]

“...”

Tang Xinjue stared at the toilet plunger in her hand, lost in silence.

The dorm is our home. Let’s all take care of it.

Theme: Work hard, keep improving, and a bright future lies ahead.