A question suddenly popped up on Jiang Min's screen.
"Want to know the meaning of life?"
"yes yes"
Jiang Min: !
Having read countless infinite-flow novels on various web-fiction sites, Jiang Min realized he was about to enter an infinite-flow world and become a challenger. But what was up with this ridiculous System? How was he supposed to choose between two yeses?
In a split second, out of sheer programmer habit, Jiang Min's hand moved on its own and clicked the X in the top-right corner.
Jiang Min: ...
Then nothing happened.
Jiang Min: ...Can I still take that back?
After a sudden bout of dizziness, Jiang Min became... a dungeon.
[System notice: You are a beginner dungeon, and your first batch of challengers has arrived. They include the strongest rookie champion, a big shot disguised as a rookie, and a spy sent by another dungeon to cause trouble... If the challengers win, your life points will be reduced to zero, and you will be declared dead. Please manage your dungeon carefully.]
Jiang Min, who had read countless classic infinite-flow novels and prepared to beat the dungeon: ...?
As a dungeon, Jiang Min quickly discovered the joy of being a programmer, screenwriter, and puppet master all in one.
He ran wild in his dungeon, using code to create terrifying pay-to-win games, churning out tearjerking storylines to rake in points, bringing NPCs along in secret identities to infiltrate the players' team, and teaching ghostly male corpses to dress as women and seduce players to scam them out of points...
*
The death rate in the infinite world was incredibly high, and even those who cleared a dungeon received very few points or items.
Then a special dungeon appeared out of nowhere.
In this dungeon, traitors met gruesome deaths, the most evil were punished as they deserved, and selfish people lost all their money...
All the innocent survivors reaped great rewards. Soon, every player who had never killed anyone was eager to enter the dungeon. Some saw it as a place of redemption, while others even made it their faith and worshiped it.
The player ranked first on the points leaderboard, a mass murderer codenamed "Wraith," was the first to enter.
Everyone held their breath, worried for him. But "Wraith" came back looking like he hadn't had enough.
The red marks on Jiang Min's neck were hard to miss. Furious, he put up a sign at the dungeon entrance.
"Player 'Wraith' and dogs are not allowed!"
*
A very, very long time later, Jiang Min had defeated the boss and successfully taken his place. Seated high upon a throne of bones, he was cheered by humans and monsters alike as they crowned him king.
Theme: Face setbacks and hardships with optimism.