Secret Identities in the Infinite-Flow World

One evening, a huge list of selectable instances suddenly appeared in the sky: "Mysterious Apartment," Grade E, maximum 5 players, currently 0/5 "Old Tales of a Mountain Village," Grade D, maximum 10 players, currently 0/10 Everyone: "So World Online has finally stopped pretending, huh?!" The next second, the Will of the World issued an announcement: [All instances come from an advancement tournament in a higher plane. Participants can help their native plane gain energy and speed up its advancement by finding and bringing back the instance cores.] [Unfortunately, this plane is too low-level to qualify for the tournament.] [However, I've arranged fake identities for you all. Smuggled contestants, please do your best to clear the instances and help this plane qualify officially as soon as possible.] Everyone: "..." The authorities quickly formed a special operations team, and Ye Xu became the captain of the Tenth Squad. Although, for now, he was the only member. The reason? Not enough manpower. Captain Ye, please wait a little longer. Ye Xu: No problem. You can customize your face in the instances, and I have a talent that lets me draw golden fingers. I can just give myself a few more secret identities and I'm good to go. Soon, the whole world knew about the Tenth Squad, a remarkable team with many outlandish members: A tiger-toothed boy who infects ghosts with bad luck and makes them suffer misfortune An elite assistant who treats rule-based instances like his own home, making up new rules to trap ghosts A smiling, ruthless doctor who checks in while walking along the boundary between life and death A chuuni young man who uses the game's health bars to demolish a boss's home and leave it a bare shell A sunny college guy who turns the tide with his save-and-load ability A laid-back old man who watches videos to open loot boxes and get buffs A high school homeroom teacher who hands ghosts exam papers and starts a test on the spot, keeping the whole room under control And Ye Xu: fake aloof beauty, kindergarten director, worried team captain To conceal his special talent, Captain Ye vowed to keep his secret identities under wraps and painfully turned down a proposal to recruit new members. No matter. He could make the Tenth Squad the strongest special operations team, better than the other nine squads, all by himself! [Content notes] 1. Mild horror, mostly not scary. The focus is on reasoning through the rules. 2. Livestream comments appear occasionally. The comments are lighthearted and won't raise your blood pressure. 3. At first, he uses a different secret identity in each instance, paired with different golden fingers. 4. The [Choice] in parentheses in the protagonist section is his true talent. The supporting-character section lists his secret identities and golden fingers, and the identities are updated according to the instances. 5. Some secret identities will reappear, but none are exposed throughout the story. 6. In the middle of the story, he unlocks a dual-control feature, allowing him to control several secret identities at once and enter an instance together. This feature does [not] cause dissociative identity disorder, emphasis on that point. The protagonist controls the main identity, while [Choice AI] temporarily manages the others. 7. Only the authorities and a few other captains know about the protagonist's secret identities. 8. A few female secret identities will appear, such as a grandma with a vegetable-grabbing skill. [Regular secret identities] Captain Ye: Team captain, a caring and considerate dad-type captain (Word Spirit: Whatever he says is guaranteed to come true) Assistant Yan: Vice-captain, an ascetic, elite executive's assistant (Rule Control: Edits the rule pages of rule-based horror stories) Su Hang: Vice-captain, a gentle, scheming family tutor (Life Pact: Binds himself to one person, splitting both damage and healing) Xiao Ou: Mischievous tiger-toothed boy (Contagion: Passes negative statuses to a designated target) Chaoyang: Sunny and cheerful college student (Save: Restarts a run through saving and loading) Brother Bai: Smiling, mad doctor (Sign-in: Gets special rewards by checking in at dangerous locations) Uncle Yu: Worldly plainclothes police chief (Assimilation: Enters an NPC's body and controls them) Xiao Sha: Passionate, chuuni punk (Player: Turns the instance environment into an online game) Wu: Elegant Nordic mixed-blood aristocrat (Werewolf: Draws a Werewolf card to gain its skill) Qi Jiu: Cold, world-weary experimental subject (Tomie: Has Tomie's abilities, such as resurrection and splitting) Hall: Tough international hitman (Stealth: A range of different invisibility skills) Minghe: Rich young master who throws money around (Wealth God Arrives: Gives red envelopes to NPCs and players to raise their favorability) Xu An: Shy, cautious little hoarder (Polaroid: Copies supplies and items by taking photographs) [One-off secret identities] Blind Girl: Quiet, cautious young woman (Third Eye: Uses the Third Eye to see in place of her own eyes) Grandpa: Easygoing retired official (Video Loot Box: Gets rewards for watching videos) Old Zhang: Middle-aged high school homeroom teacher (Exam: Uses exam papers to keep all designated targets under control) Xiazhi: Lazy, sly little commoner (Item Wholesale: Can buy shoddy items at cost price) Dongxiao: Hardcore, overworked corporate drone (Modification: Modifies objects into items) Flying Bird: Elusive, unscrupulous merchant (Information Broker: Sells clues needed for the instance at a high price) Grandma: Kind, hardworking grandma (Hard Work Brings Wealth: Forces others to throw away "trash" + No one beats me at grabbing vegetables) Theme: Strive for a better tomorrow.