Holographic Crime Simulator 2: I’ll Only Play This Once

[Important reading note: This story is set in an alternate future. The crimes are simulated in a full-dive game and are entirely virtual. Please do not draw parallels with real life.] Recommended upcoming title in the author's collection: Special Crime Scene Cleaner As a high-risk human, Ye Sangsheng once received an invitation to beta-test the full-dive game Crime Files. The game offered a high degree of freedom and adaptability, highly realistic simulations, and scenarios based on real criminal cases. Its beta test attracted enormous attention. The condition for participating in the beta was that she livestream her gameplay. Fragile, beautiful, and quiet: those were the words people used to describe Ye Sangsheng. As a game the whole nation was eagerly anticipating, Crime Files saw Ye Sangsheng earn an all-SSS score in the beta. When she returned, Ye Sangsheng was greeted with ridicule once again. “As a criminal, she looks like she’d cry the second she picked up a knife.” “Can she even solve a case? What if the criminal is standing right in front of her and she’s still going ‘Maka Paka’?” “She’d be better off playing a victim. She looks like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered!” But as the cases unfolded, Ye Sangsheng left her audience utterly dumbfounded. “Sang, please stop acting. Your criminals look more like criminals than the actual criminals!” “How did she figure out something was wrong? I went over it again and still can’t tell!” “Help, is she really the victim? Why has the criminal disappeared too?!” Her livestream went from being filled with doubts to earning widespread admiration. Some even suspected that she was a high-IQ criminal herself. Then, through her full-dive crime simulations, Ye Sangsheng began uncovering the stories behind one scenario after another! The audience: ???!!! Holy crap! Ye Sangsheng turns to the camera: “Please note, I’m only doing this once.” … Recommended: a similar story by a friend, I Made a Name for Myself with the Good and Evil System, by Yu Luo Chuang Lian, ID: 7365041 Police academy student Lin Shuyue died while doing a good deed, but not completely. She woke up in a parallel world as an intern reporter with the same name. Looking at the three-hour countdown to her death on the Good and Evil System she had just bound to, Lin Shuyue fell into thought. She was alive, but not quite. Only by exposing criminals and helping the police arrest them could she extend her life! Fortunately, the System came with a criminal-scanning radar that could distinguish people's moral alignment and randomly drop various rewards. Otherwise, she would have been done for! To stay alive, she infiltrated one criminal gang after another. As she investigated criminals and uncovered the truth, she became an outstanding investigative journalist, sweeping up all kinds of journalism awards and becoming the youngest-ever recipient of a lifetime achievement award… A captured human trafficker: “I look like an honest, decent guy. Then she came right up and slapped me twice…” An A-class fugitive: “She said she’d found me a nice place, then took me to the police station…” A headmaster at an internet-addiction boot camp: “I just wanted to give the kids a little treatment. She saw me and insisted on giving me a taste of it too…” A bureau chief: “Ahem, Reporter Lin, when are you going to stop by my office?” A special task force leader: “Reporter Lin, we’ve got a major case… Would you be interested in hearing about it?” Theme: Crime will never be forgiven.