Every country shares an unspoken secret: the eldritch action RPG Calamity is a real world.
The evil god who rules the world of Calamity is mad and deranged. Its ever-growing power is about to tear through the world's barriers and destroy Earth.
Every country assembled its most elite teams. Over half a century, at the cost of countless elite operatives suffering brain death, they crawled into the evil god's instance in search of a glimmer of hope.
But the so-called evil god's palace turned out to be nothing more than a shabby house.
The evil god that ruled the world leaned against a moldy wall, slumped among a jumble of odds and ends.
Like a madman, it would sometimes pick up a bouquet of flowers, sometimes kiss a rag doll.
It smiled sweetly and murmured,
"Xixi, Xixi."
It seemed humanity had found hope!
Another half-century passed before people finally figured out that Xixi was the name of the evil god's beloved.
But its beloved had died tens of millions of years ago.
The commander-in-chief closed his eyes and let out a dejected sigh, unable to bear looking at a world doomed to meet its end.
Ming Xi had a secret too.
He had once traveled to a wondrous, fantastical world and fallen in love with its most spirited and dazzling prodigy. They chased the sun and sang beneath the moon, so brilliant that even the laws of the world had to give them a wide berth.
Sadly, every life must come to an end.
When he awoke again, Ming Xi found that he had returned to Earth.
[Half of this is written. I ran out of steam, so I'm posting it as is for now.]
Theme: Haven't figured it out yet.