Single-Player Game: What Did I Do to Deserve This?

Not long after "■■■■" launched, players initially thought it was just an ordinary full-dive game. It didn't take long for them to realize they were wrong.

As more and more players began suffering symptoms like severed mental connections and lapses in consciousness, many realized something was wrong with the game.

Many players trapped inside came to believe the game world was real. They could no longer tell virtual from reality, and couldn't log out.

Luo Zhongyang was just one step away from taking the city lord's position when she exclaimed in shock 😳: "What? There are other players besides me? So this isn't a single-player game?"

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Luo Zhongyang had clicked into the game by accident while on vacation. At first, she only wanted to take it easy and play casually. But she found that the game System always seemed to screw her over for no reason. Before long, she had started doing things in-game that could get her killed, and gradually became more and more shameless.

For example, she would toss an already-mutated NPC out of a window without warning, treat her teammates like dogs in a game of fetch, or go bungee jumping and swing from an NPC's corpse.

Sometimes her reckless stunts got her into trouble too, but it wasn't a big deal. She was still a good player, and Luo Zhongyang was having a great time.

Until one day, she realized that somewhere along the way, she had gone from an ordinary player to the savior of the game.

Oh, and not just the game's savior, but the savior of all the other players too.

Luo Zhongyang: Wait, where did these other players come from? Isn't this a single-player game?!

■ Reader's Guide

1. An unconventional mix of infinite-flow, unconventional games, unconventional Fourth Catastrophe elements, and more. A hodgepodge written for the author's own enjoyment. It's less like an infinite-flow instance and more like clearing game levels, with a few infinite-flow elements mixed in.

2. The female lead doesn't start out doing reckless things. It's a gradual process :)

3. There is a male lead, and he isn't just set dressing. There isn't a ton of romance, but the author will still write the male lead and the relationship. If you don't want romance, feel free to close the page.

4. No unsolicited writing advice. Excessive comments will be deleted.

5. The blurb was first written on [22.9.26] and revised on [26.5.14].

Theme: Don't become too immersed in virtual reality.