Wei Jiecun, a poor accounting student, is at risk of failing to complete her summer practical assignment and jeopardizing her graduation when a voice suddenly sounds in her mind.
["Welcome to the Global Make-Up-Your-Homework Game. The process of completing your homework will be livestreamed to viewers around the world. We look forward to your performance."]
["Congratulations, you have received a self-selected item for this mission."]
["The first make-up-your-homework livestream is about to begin. Anyone who fails to complete the mission or report on time will be eliminated. Be careful and stay alive."]
Wei Jiecun, currently doing an internship, looks at the confirmation letter from the audited organization in her hand and falls silent.
A confirmation letter as an item? That's absurd...
After struggling to survive the first "make-up-your-homework" mission, Wei Jiecun draws her own innate item.
...An insurance policy?
"Congratulations, Wei Jiecun! You have obtained the innate item 'Insure Me?' You can take out a policy at the start of every make-up-your-homework mission and secure yourself a reliable safety net!"
Later, she becomes the one with the highest odds.
Whether it's good luck or bad, Wei Jiecun's danger rate rises in a straight line, but she makes a fortune.
And the more dangerous the situation, the higher the death rate, and the higher the insurance payout.
Could this be her secret to getting rich?
In the Global Livestream Make-Up-Your-Homework Club Competition, there's always one familiar figure.
She loves walking the line between life and death, asking everyone she meets, "Hey, want some insurance? The kind with a huge payout."
Everyone else: "The payouts are pretty good... but she seems to enjoy putting herself in danger."
Fake insurance peddler, real investment manager Wei Jiecun: "I offer other services too. Anyone want an points fund? An item option?"
[Reader's guide:]
1. Plot-focused, lighthearted with a touch of horror. Some instances lean heavily on analysis and logical deduction, and the details and foreshadowing unfold slowly. Read with caution.
2. There's only a little of him, appearing mainly in the first instance. The male lead is barely in the background.
3. Inspired by something on 2023.2.1-17:29; original work.
[Blurb for the next story:]
[Wanted by the Entire Server: NPC]
The world's leading technology company, Tianxing United, releases "Infinite Cyber 2777," a full-dive virtual reality game of epoch-making significance.
The game features a futuristic, ultra-technological cyberpunk world and alien monstrosities. It offers complete freedom and an ultra-realistic immersive experience, with no required main storyline. Players are free to explore on their own.
The game's only official red-letter warning reads: [After entering the game, never reveal that you are a player. You can do anything, as long as you can bear the consequences.]
As soon as the game is released, its promotional materials are shared wildly by major media outlets, sparking discussions across the world.
After its release, the first round of beta registrations attracts over a hundred million people, but the official team announces that the game can support only 100,000 accounts.
According to the rules, each person's account is bound to a single life in the game. Once the character dies, the account is deleted, and only then can a new player apply for the now-vacant spot.
Everyone gets just one chance to experience the game in their lifetime. Once they die, they can never enter it again.
This novel style of gaming inspires even more frenzied enthusiasm around the world.
Zhou Yijiu's life is routine. She works in the logistics department of the Federal Executive Bureau. Her job is to follow her colleagues in the security department, help clean up after they eliminate alien monstrosities, and recover any valuable monster corpses.
The job is basically risk-free.
Go to work, collect corpses, go home. That's her day. Good pay, little work, and close to home. She's very satisfied.
One day, while she is collecting corpses, a group of people appears out of nowhere. They first kill a rampaging SS-rank alien monstrosity, then start killing people without a care.
As everyone in the Executive Bureau is about to be wiped out, Zhou Yijiu is "given the job in the nick of time" under the strange gazes of everyone present.
Ten minutes later.
Security team: "?"
Logistics department: "??"
Mysterious group: "???!!"
From that day on, Zhou Yijiu's peaceful life is completely shattered.
All kinds of people start trying to harm her, openly and covertly, and even the Executive Bureau keeps working her like a mule.
One day, Zhou Yijiu, a logistics worker sent on a trip with the security team, happens to pick up a gun while they are capturing a fugitive.
Zhou Yijiu: I could make a fortune selling this.
A few days later, in the real world, a Chinese-language post suddenly goes viral in the comments of a popular livestream.
The title reads: "Who the hell stole the official first-release commemorative god-tier weapon, the MK Disintegrator?!"
The post sets off heated debate among players and game fans around the world, but no one can reach a conclusion.
At the same time, the game's official operations team holds an emergency meeting. The person who took the commemorative god-tier weapon is an NPC!
To cover up this bug, the official team sends several squads into the game, intending to eliminate this NPC.
Zhou Yijiu prides herself on doing her job responsibly, but suddenly realizes that her personal safety is under serious threat.
The danger comes not only from her work: several unknown forces are also trying to assassinate her.
After escaping death several times, Zhou Yijiu finally loses patience:
If there's a path to heaven and you refuse to take it...
Then none of you are getting out alive!
The game team discovers that this NPC is becoming increasingly uncontrollable. More importantly, she seems to have uncovered some top-secret files.
As discussions about the NPC grow ever more popular and all attempts to kill her fail, the official team finally issues the first main story quest since the game launched nearly a year ago.
That day, a notice appears on the homepages of major entertainment outlets around the world and in the game's official livestream.
[Announcement 1: Starting today, the game's player capacity will gradually increase by 50,000 each month. Remember: every account still has only one life. Death means no record will be kept.]
[Announcement 2: The team behind "Infinite Cyber 2777" is issuing the world's players a top-level, limited-time bounty mission: hunt down Zhou Yijiu, former captain of Squad Three in the Federal Executive Bureau's Logistics Department.]
Theme: Students should study hard and do their homework properly!
Let that man appear first
Very cute story and people. The ending is a bit fast and rushed qwq, but the beginning and setting are very interesting!
Let's update 10 chapters in a row!!
It's great, another favorite book has been finished.
When I see the Heavenly Sword Man, I think of the one with the poison on the blade.
In addition to being kind-hearted, this group of roommates is really very intelligent in their writing.
His roommate is really such a cheater, can he die?
Can you please stop bringing these roommates to play with you? Kindness and good character without brains cannot stop the pace of death.
Can be contacted via mobile phone. The two cheating roommates did not know the synchronization information even after they changed the script.
Okay, I was wrong. I thought that except for the heroine, everything else was a fantasy setting.