The Entire Server Is Hunting Down an NPC

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Zhou Yijiu works in the logistics department of the Federal Enforcement Bureau. Her life follows the same routine every day. Her job is to help her colleagues in the Security Department clean up after the removal of alien species and recover any valuable corpses.

The job is basically risk-free.

Go to work, pick up corpses, go home. That's her day. Good pay, little work, and close to home. She's satisfied.

Then, during one of her corpse-recovery jobs, a group of strangers showed up. They killed a rampaging S-rank alien, then started killing people for no good reason.

With everyone at the Enforcement Bureau about to be wiped out, Zhou Yijiu was forced to step in, to the bewilderment of everyone watching.

Ten minutes later.

Security Team: "?"

Logistics Department: "??"

Mysterious gang: "???!!"

From that day on, Zhou Yijiu's peaceful life was completely shattered.

People around her began trying to sabotage her, openly and behind the scenes. Even the Enforcement Bureau kept working her like a mule.

Then a group of people calling themselves "players" suddenly appeared, spreading across the entire Federation like cockroaches. They kept carrying out all kinds of "terrorist attacks," forcing the Enforcement Bureau to take them seriously.

While chasing down some escaping players, Zhou Yijiu, a logistics worker who had gone on assignment with the Security Team, grabbed a gun while arresting them.

Zhou Yijiu: I could make a lot selling this on the black market.

2

The game "Infinite Cyber 2777" had been popular ever since its preview. As soon as it launched, major media outlets went wild reposting news about it, and it quickly set off a storm of discussion around the world.

The game's only red-letter warning told players never to reveal their identities. It also pointed out that every player had only one account, with a single save in the game. If they died in the game, their account would be deleted. This novel style of gameplay inspired an even more frenzied following around the world.

One day, a Chinese post in the comments section of a hugely popular livestream suddenly blew up. The title read, "Who on earth snatched the official first-release commemorative legendary weapon, the MK Disintegrator?!"

The post sparked heated debate among players and fans around the world, but no one could figure out the answer. Meanwhile, the game's official operations team was holding an emergency meeting.

Because the person who had taken the commemorative legendary weapon was an NPC!

To cover up this bug, the company sent several teams into the game, intending to eliminate the NPC.

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Zhou Yijiu suddenly realized that her personal safety was under serious threat.

The danger didn't just come from work. Several unknown factions were also trying to assassinate her.

After escaping death several times, Zhou Yijiu finally lost patience. Since you won't take the road to heaven even though it's right in front of you...

Then none of you are leaving alive!

The game's development team realized that this NPC was becoming harder and harder to control. More importantly, she seemed to have uncovered some highly classified files.

As discussions of the NPC grew more and more popular, and all attempts to kill her ended in failure, the official team finally released the first main quest in the nearly year-long history of the game.

That day, a notice appeared on the front pages of major entertainment news outlets around the world and in the game's official livestream.

[Notice 1: Effective immediately, the game's player capacity will be increased. Monthly slots will rise to 50,000. Remember, each account still has only one life. Death means no save file.]

[Notice 2: The team behind "Infinite Cyber 2777" is issuing the world's players a top-prize, limited-time mission: hunt down Zhou Yijiu, former captain of Team 3 in the Federal Enforcement Bureau Logistics Department.]

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine is very strong. She doesn't talk much, but it's not an act. There's a reason.

2. Dystopian fiction.

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Theme: Find yourself. Freedom above all.