I'm Just a Lazy Fish in a Creepy World

Jiang Jian had just graduated from university when he was pulled into a strange and terrifying world of endless supernatural horrors, filled with indescribable monsters. He had to keep completing the tasks issued by the System, defeating monsters and upgrading the System, if he wanted to survive. After spending over a hundred years, Jiang Jian finally upgraded the System to its maximum level and successfully returned to his original world. With the ancestral home and inheritance left by his grandfather, Jiang Jian smoothly achieved the lie-flat life he’d always dreamed of. No work, no monsters, just happy days as a couch potato. But this world had suddenly become just a tiny bit strange. The tenant who came to rent a room seemed like an ordinary nine-to-six office worker, but in the dead of night he would breathe fire to roast mutated tentacles, filling the old house with the smell of cumin. The old man next door plucked out his own eyeball with his bare hands and stuffed it into the wall. He watched Jiang Jian while drooling with longing. Strange incidents kept happening nearby, and people went missing one after another. Residential buildings were urgently sealed off, and countless horrifying videos went viral online. Contamination was spreading. The real world was slowly being devoured by the uncanny, while those indescribable monsters lurked nearby, ready to pounce. Jiang Jian, who had only just started to lie flat: ... I really don’t want to fight monsters anymore. With the uncanny invading and the apocalypse about to begin, countries around the world quickly established uncanny bureaus to resist the disaster and recruit those who had awakened to the ability to deal with supernatural phenomena. But there were far too few of them to meet demand. Jiang Jian accidentally revealed his “luck” ability and was dragged into a support role. So in his very first instance, Jiang Jian “luckily” drew hell-level difficulty: an S-rank aberrant entity accompanied by a special-grade source of contamination, with a death rate of 99.9 percent. His teammates were knocked around by the aberrant entity one after another. Finally, it was Jiang Jian’s turn. Jiang Jian: ... With no choice but to fight monsters, Jiang Jian picked up a broken wooden stick and fought back through his tears. The S-rank aberrant entity: “Aaaaaah! QAQ” Fu Bo was the uncanny bureau’s strongest fighter. His abilities were formidable, but his body was frail. He was always coughing up blood, and everyone thought he was near death, including Fu Bo himself. That was until he met a handsome young man named Jiang Jian. The young man casually picked up a little plastic white flower from the ground and held it out to Fu Bo. “An SSS-rank infected entity, mutation type: holy light. Eat it and you’ll stay healthy until you’re ninety-nine.” Fu Bo: ? My new novel is now out, *I Entered a Cyberpunk Game and Rose to Godhood*. Please add it to your favorites~ Jiang Ji was once an omniscient, all-powerful psychic. But because his abilities were too strong, he was like the only donkey on a production team, sent everywhere to clear contamination, fight monsters, and save people. In the end, he died suddenly during a late-night overtime shift. After being reborn, he became an orphaned university student with a terminal illness, not expected to live past twenty-two. Because of his gloomy, twisted personality, his whole class shunned him. It was said that he had once stood on a rooftop and confessed to his crush in an extreme fashion, threatening to jump if they refused him. Now twenty-one and with only a year to live, Jiang Ji thought, “Is this what they call a death-start?” On the night Jiang Ji was reborn, a game system descended. One thousand ordinary people were selected by the System to become players in *3555 Cyberpunk Undercover Game*. The game periodically transported its players in person to a future cyberpunk world. Each player was an invader in that future world, and had to complete assigned missions while keeping their identity hidden. Failure could mean death; success brought rewards. Jiang Ji was one of them. He rubbed his hands together, ready to make a big splash in the game and win a chance to extend his life. But the moment he entered the game and opened his eyes, he saw the face of his former crush. That crush, the eldest son of the Lu family conglomerate, pinched Jiang Ji’s chin. Despite his refined, handsome features, his tone was cold and malicious. “You think you’re good enough to get into my bed?” Jiang Ji: “...Got it. I’m not good enough, and I don’t want to.” * After *3555 Cyberpunk Undercover Game* appeared, it immediately became a global sensation, not only because the game was uncanny and could transport people into a real cyberpunk future, but also because most players who entered the game gained superpowers. Some people went from skinny weaklings to muscular men overnight. Others went from being utterly ordinary office drones to having the ability to beat up their corporate bosses from a distance and then turn invisible in style. The player most widely discussed was Number 001. Not only was he ranked first, he also had omniscient, all-powerful abilities and pulled off countless outrageous moves, repeatedly turning the cyberpunk world upside down. Everyone, both in the future cyberpunk world and in the twenty-first century, was searching for Number 001’s true identity. Jiang Ji walked past his passionately arguing classmates with a bag of life-extending medicine in his hand. Classmate A: “Number 001 must be incredibly impressive, tall and long-legged, with an overwhelming presence! You can tell he’s no ordinary person!” Classmate B: “Number 001 must be highborn, surrounded by admirers and an army of followers!” Classmate C: “Number 001 must... must obviously be no ordinary person!” Jiang Ji was frail and sickly, with a “twisted” personality, utterly ordinary, friendless, and once an extreme simp: ... He walked past all his classmates without leaving even a cloud behind. * Xie Jingchen was born with a beautiful face capable of deceiving the world. At school, he was known by everyone as a gentle, handsome guy, considerate, attentive, and easy to get along with. He had countless secret admirers, the most famous being his junior, Jiang Ji, who had threatened to jump off a building. But once he left school, he was a notorious mad dog in the mysterious bureau. The more powerful his abilities, the more reckless his methods. Everyone in and outside the bureau was both afraid of him and wary of him, always worrying that one day he’d end up on the path of a thoroughly unhinged antisocial maniac. Then one day, they discovered that the madman seemed to have fallen in love. He was relentlessly pursuing an ordinary university student named Jiang Ji. One day, on a rooftop, the madman stood on the railing as the wind lifted his fringe, revealing his beautiful, wild eyes. “Date me, or I’ll jump.” Jiang Ji, threatened in front of everyone: ... Everyone: !!! Beautiful, crazy, overwhelmingly powerful, lovesick pursuer x rational, lazy, secretly formidable receiver Theme: Live earnestly and do more good deeds