The Shelter Landing Incident, also known as the Shelter Invasion Disaster, began six years ago.
Abandoned shelters from various unknown apocalyptic worlds began appearing across Blue Star.
According to the earliest records, on the first day, a dilapidated little inn that no one had seen before appeared in a city. Singing could be heard there at night. On the second day, someone saw dark figures walking around inside. Everyone thought it was haunted. Then, from the third day through the fifth, those figures became real people. On the sixth night, they raised their cups, sang loudly, and wept as they drank. Then they vanished without a trace.
At first glance, it seemed like nothing more than a strange story. But the instant those people disappeared, residents of dozens of apartment buildings around the inn were attacked by unidentified birds, suffering heavy casualties.
"We found a notebook in the inn. It seems to be... a diary," the professor said, adjusting his glasses. "Those mysterious people used to live in an apocalyptic shelter, hiding from birds with human fingers."
"Ah, the survivors from the apartment complex said those birds looked the same!" someone called out, raising a hand.
The professor braced both hands on the table, leaned forward, and looked around with worried eyes.
"So, everyone, that shelter brought the disaster from its world to ours."
One day the following year, a child rode through the city at night in a flower-decorated cart, reciting poems that hinted at the arrival date of a new shelter and various clues about it.
Thus, the Shelter Research Center was established.
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Fang Yunqiu, a member of the Shelter Research Center's Fourth Action Team, went to work every day as usual, her life calm and uneventful.
Until one day, as she stood in front of the time clock, two dice suddenly appeared in her mind. They were thrown, landed, and showed a three and a five.
"Total: eight. Result is below ten. Your identity for this scenario has been confirmed.
Confirmation complete. You are the shelter's front desk administrator. Proceed immediately to the public library on Lanjiang Avenue."
At that very moment, facial recognition failed and an alarm sounded:
"Beep. Foreign entity detected!"
Her identity had changed. Her former teammates and colleagues would now turn their guns on her!
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Something even more thrilling was yet to come.
Thanks to that unknown System, a memory of Fang Yunqiu's was stirred. She finally remembered that six years ago, she had cleared an infinite-flow game.
She pulled up her long-unused status screen and saw that the game had already rewarded her for clearing it, granting her ability cards.
"Basic Skill: Return to the Village to Offer Sacrifices to Your Ancestors.
Skill Description: Tell any person or object, 'I want to take you home to meet my parents,' and you can summon the gate to a haunted village shrine and drag your enemy inside."
After activating and using her basic skill, Fang Yunqiu embarked on a strange and unpredictable path.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere.
In a beginner's infinite-flow game scenario, Lu Changxing stared pensively at the ancestral tablets in a mountain village shrine.
The first dozen tablets were perfectly normal, bearing the names of the Chen family. But at some point, the additional tablets that appeared behind them became... rather strange.
"Tablet for the Spirit of Codenamed Gray Bird," "Tablet for Robot No. 125"...
Unable to resist, Lu Changxing posted on the forum: "What kind of new cyberpunk infinite-flow Chinese horror scenario is this?"
Wait, a big shot dragged them in?
Theme: Survive.