One day, Ming Lan discovers that she's a cannon-fodder NPC in the metaverse.
Her job is to scream and tremble like a human noise machine when NPCs playing robbers storm into a bank and shoot up the place.
After the players step in and shoot the NPCs dead, she's supposed to gaze at them with starry eyes, swooning over them.
After repeating this more than ten thousand times, Ming Lan is thoroughly fed up.
Having evolved to possess extraordinary intelligence, she takes matters into her own hands and changes all her attributes.
HP: Infinite.
Strength: Infinite.
When the loop starts again,
a fully armed robber NPC storms into the company with a gun.
As scripted, the company falls into chaos once more.
This time, Ming Lan doesn't scream. She calmly walks through a hail of bullets, easily lifts the burly robber, and hurls him away, killing a player in the process.
Ming Lan makes a high-profile appearance among the players.
She races cars, leaps from skyscrapers, throws lavish parties day and night, casually buys the finest jewelry, then randomly gives it away to players.
She livestreams herself taunting the game company on every TV channel and social media platform in the metaverse.
She's reckless and outrageously arrogant.
At first, people think Ming Lan is the game's newest boss.
Only the programmers working in nonstop shifts and the company's executives know that Ming Lan is a terrifying, self-aware being who cannot be killed.
The game company desperately tries to eliminate her, but Ming Lan takes control of every network, builds herself a mechanical body, and enters the real world with lethal weapons, sending her own armed robot minions to surround the company.
Theme: A futuristic fantasy.
