[A quick note: I've put up an advance notice for "Unusual Species Are Forbidden to Wander." You can find it at the top of my profile. The blurb is at the very bottom.]
"I thought I was going to make a lot this time, but the game company actually went bankrupt!"
Tang Xicheng has a leg disability and can't work normally to earn money. After spending a year participating in game testing, all she can say right now is: My head hurts.
One morning a month later, she wheeled herself onto the balcony for some fresh air.
A dense stream of comments drifted across the sky.
[Am I dreaming? Has the game taken over reality?]
[Isn't this the game whose company went bankrupt right after the test ended? I've seen this setting in the promotional video.]
[Good heavens, what's going on?]
Tang Xicheng: My leg is healed? I can walk!
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The full-immersion game Conquest has malfunctioned, and its contents have completely taken over reality. Blue Star has become part of the game.
No matter how much they cry and complain, the players have to accept the rules of the game, fight one another, seize cities, and earn large amounts of Rage Points to survive.
Tang Xicheng alone never fights. She spends every day gathering ingredients and making delicious food, living an entirely different life.
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While gathering ingredients in the wild, Tang Xicheng runs into players fighting monsters and gets looked down on.
"You have to fight monsters and other players to get Rage Points. How are you going to survive messing around with all this stuff?"
As someone who was usually aloof and didn't like wasting words, she thinks: I'm one of the first batch of beta testers. Do they think I don't know the truth about Rage Points?
She runs into players attacking a city and gets another round of "friendly advice."
"If you don't take part in the battles, you won't get Rage Points. Never mind anything else, you won't even be able to afford a good time in the most luxurious city, Silverlight City."
Tang Xicheng looks at the proof of ownership for Silverlight City in her inventory and says nothing.
She accidentally wanders into the battlefield between two groups of opposing players. Players fall in droves, and the battlefield is filled with cries of despair.
"What the hell is going on with this person? Why did she bring a huge number of monsters in here, and every single one is a top-level BOSS!"
Tang Xicheng awkwardly says, "Um... maybe they smelled the food and followed me. I was just looking for ingredients. Carry on."
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There are many guilds, and they spontaneously form two alliances to make it easier to earn Rage Points. The hidden big shot Tang Xicheng also joins one of them.
Later, members of her own alliance demand to know why Tang Xicheng stood by and let the opposing alliance break them apart.
Tang Xicheng thinks: A bunch of faithless villains. I'll watch you all go down.
Tang Xicheng says aloud, "I just want to find delicious food. Whether it's soy-braised pork ribs, stewed chicken, red-braised pork, crayfish, giant crabs, or roast duck, I'm not giving any of it to you."
Blurb for Unusual Species Are Forbidden to Wander:
For months, dark clouds have hung over King Star, bringing endless rain and terrible weather.
Ling Yin sets foot in King Star's central city. With every step she takes, the clouds disperse, the rain stops, and the sky finally clears after a long absence.
The central city's security officer lures Ling Yin into the Unusual Species Shelter with a pot of pig trotters. The shelter is full of unusual humans who can control anomalous powers and are controlled by ordinary humans.
The handlers are controlled by collars and are also scorned and rejected by the outside world, earning the derogatory label "leash handlers."
The collars control every handler, but they have no effect on Ling Yin.
Ling Yin doesn't follow the rules. She often climbs over the wall to go out, causing all kinds of trouble on King Star.
#A mysterious person appears at the Mecha Administration Bureau's exhibition, damaging hundreds of mechas.#
#On the day of a noblewoman's wedding, a mysterious person abducts her and disappears. Her whereabouts are unknown.#
#A mysterious person wipes out King Star's underground dark organization, and its leader begs for mercy in the street.#
#Could the mysterious person really be a leash handler?#
#A leash handler wandering around at will? What will become of the king's dignity?#
Before long, the king personally issues a ban.
[Unusual Species Are Forbidden to Wander]
Watching Ling Yin ignore the ban and keep wandering everywhere, the shelter director is beside himself with frustration. "Can someone, anyone, please keep her in check?"
Ling Yin looks aggrieved. "The food is so awful. I climbed over the wall because I just wanted to go out and eat something good."
Ling Yin as others see her: Powerful and inscrutable.
Ling Yin in reality: No memories, simple-minded, and often unable to understand what other people say or do.
Theme: The way we survive depends on the choices we make.
I Never Meant to Become the King of This Illusion
The Fake Heiress's Little Cart Takes the Planet by Storm
Unusual Species Are Forbidden to Wander
After I Got Trapped Inside My Sister's Teddy Bear
After Escaping, I Became the Ruler of a Planet
A Small Wish
After the System Split Personalities, the Big Shot Dropped the Act
The Artifact Spirit Toddler Refuses to Be the Group's Little Darling
The Foodie Conquers the Holo-Game with Delicious Food
It's so frustrating, so unrealistic and modern.
Where are there so many evil people? Are you writing about modern society?
In a normal society, it is impossible for such a vulnerable group to have such an experience. If nothing else, the community will not let this happen. There will definitely be a minimum deposit, and there will definitely be enough food.
It doesn't feel good at all???????, The heroine is just inexplicable, she has become more powerful, and instead of beating them up or killing them to the resurrection point, she just talks and says a few words, it's so frustrating.
It's a bit fake. In modern society, there are surveillance everywhere. It was written to force the heroine to be weak as a contrast, which is similar to forcibly reducing intelligence.
The world has become gamified. Why is the heroine's leg healed but Granny Yang's illness is still there?
Why is this world so violent and malicious?
The heroine had a terrible start, and one of the heroine's controllers was slightly broken...