March 27, 2027, midnight, UTC+8.
Humanity lost its sun and moon forever.
When disaster struck, the subway train Zhu Xu was riding suddenly flipped onto its side. Amid the flames and screams, Zhu Xu lost consciousness.
When she woke, she found herself on a beach. In front of her, a handsome young man with blond hair and blue eyes was crouching. Seeing Zhu Xu wake up, he gave her a smile sweet enough to melt hearts.
Getting charmed by a handsome guy is only natural, so even though she was covered in grime, Zhu Xu raised a hand in a daze and greeted him. "H-Hello?"
The response was the gleaming dagger in the blond youth's hand. It plunged into her chest, and Zhu Xu watched blood seep out.
Oh, wow. All she did was say hi. How did that turn into go die?
Zhu Xu thought she was done for, but she woke up again, this time in a city, or rather, at a survivors' base.
It turned out that the day the moon disappeared, disaster had come to Earth. Not only had the environment changed drastically, leaving most of the land unfit for human habitation, but all kinds of game instances had also appeared.
Those lucky enough to survive had to keep entering game instances and clearing them to earn points. Only then could they avoid being at the bottom of the leaderboard during the quarterly reckoning and getting eliminated.
Of course, to keep the many frail, unfit survivors from dying too quickly, everyone who entered a game awakened some kind of ability. Some became as strong as oxen, while others could withstand a fatal blow...
To Zhu Xu's surprise, her ability seemed to be coming back to life after death.
An infinite death game, but she can't die.
Zhu Xu let out an evil cackle like a villain. Then she could go wild and look for ways to die all over the place!
Ever since the leaderboard opened, first place had always belonged to the person whose profile icon was a 7 against a black background.
His score was so far ahead that second place could hardly hope to catch up. Then, some time later, people were surprised to find that [7] was being relentlessly pursued by a newcomer who had appeared near the top of the rankings. The gap between them kept shrinking, until the newcomer overtook him...
Even more horrifying, people realized the newcomer's profile icon was a simple little cat, and they seemed to have killed people with the same cat tattoo.
The tattoo each person bore was the same as their profile icon on the leaderboard.
In other words, the person now in first place had been killed by many people before.
Theme: Hard work brings prosperity.