Nightmare Queen

Three hundred years after the wasteland was rebuilt, human society had advanced at an astonishing pace, carrying civilization into the stars.

Yet the zombie virus had become etched into everyone's genes. Everyone would suffer a brutal illness at some point in their lives. Those who couldn't endure it would lose their minds and become nightmare monsters. Even more terrifyingly, ordinary people who came into contact with nightmare monsters could also be corrupted and transformed.

Statistics showed that around one-fifth of people died in related incidents every year. Controlling the monsters had become the top priority across the stars.

The moment Chu Si opened her eyes, she found herself in this unfamiliar world. She had no identity and no money. Fortunately, as a natural human, she had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, all arranged in an exquisitely beautiful face. The moment she appeared, the people around her went wild with admiration, and she was invited to appear on a livestream variety show.

That sounded great. She happily went off to earn money, never guessing that the hotel where the production crew was staying would become a contaminated zone invaded by nightmare monsters that very night. Unless they found the monster's true form, no one would escape.

In this livestream, watched in horror by millions, terrifying mutations and killings were taking place.

[I'm being affected through the screen. I can't focus on finding the monster at all.]

[The mutation process is so despairing.]

[It's over. The monster's level is too high. The production crew is doomed. Is this the first variety show crew to die on a livestream?]

In the blink of an eye, the people on-site and the viewers were overwhelmed with terror. Only Chu Si still thought they were filming a variety show, just goofing around.

With little experience of life among the stars, she stuck to the principle that saying less meant making fewer mistakes and tried her best to smile. As a result, viewers in the comments called her [The one with the terrifying smile who'll be the first to go insane] and [The most suspicious person of being a monster], among other things. She paid them no mind, only becoming more careful with her words and actions, worried that someone might discover she was an undocumented resident.

But the variety show had been filming all night and still wasn't over. She finally realized that everyone else seemed to be trapped in a collective hallucination, believing they'd entered a haunted village. The actors were fleeing in a panic from a cactus, the director was clutching his own throat and rolling his eyes while claiming he was drowning, and the cameraman was clinging to the window, insisting on jumping.

In a hurry, Chu Si went to rescue them. She heard there was a source of contamination, so she searched all over the set. At last, in a cabinet, she spotted a small boy with a bluish-white face, laughing with his hands on his hips.

So it was a naughty kid causing all this trouble.

Chu Si lost her temper, grabbed the child, and gave him a hard spanking. But the moment she had the little brat bawling, the trending topics across the stars exploded!

#TheContaminatedZoneHasCleared#

#WhatTheHellWhyIsSheBeatingUpANightmareMonster#

#IThoughtSheWentCrazyAgesAgoOhTurnsOutIWasTheCrazyOne#

Theme: Save the world and pull everyone mired in the swamp back out