Clutching a Tortoise Shell to Survive

Please add my upcoming novel *Even Max-Level Players Have to Be Called in for Parent-Teacher Meetings* to your reading list. Blurb at the bottom! Blurb: [The Myriad Realms’ once-in-a-millennium livestream challenge begins today!] [Each time a challenger clears a world, they earn resources their own world needs. If all 10 challengers from a world die, its technological level will regress and its resources will diminish.] * As a veterinary student, the first thing Wan Yao does when she gets home is check on the health of the family tortoise, who is old enough to be her great-great-great-grandparent. But while she’s fetching it a snack, the tortoise suddenly sheds its shell and gives it to her. Wan Yao, clutching the shell in shock: !!! Dumbfounded, Wan Yao goes to look for her phone so she can record what happened and ask her teacher about it. But before she can, the ground vanishes beneath her feet and she plunges straight into the sea. Splash! Clutching the tortoise shell, Wan Yao floats on the sea. Thank goodness my tortoise saved my life. A mechanical voice echoes through the vast ocean sky. [As the judge of this challenge, we absolutely respect all challengers and guarantee a fair and impartial competition.] Relying on her instincts as both a novel reader and a gamer, Wan Yao finds her status panel: Health: 100 (What a low health score. Even a gust of wind could kill you.) Intelligence: 9 (You’re a pretty clever little genius.) Stamina: 1 (Is this what your world calls a fragile college student? What a feeble body.) Luck: 10 (Did you save the world in your previous life? How can your luck score be maxed out?!) Wan Yao, expressionless: “Game, my ass. Respect, my foot.” She files a report right away. She uses the tortoise shell to build a safe shelter, stockpiles food, prepares supplies, and competes for resources. I will survive and make it home. Please add my upcoming novel *Even Max-Level Players Have to Be Called in for Parent-Teacher Meetings* to your reading list! Lou Nian is dragged into an infinite game and forced to clear 1,000 game instances before finally earning enough points to go home. But by then, a thousand years have passed. Standing on an unfamiliar metal street and watching flying cars roar past, unlike anything she’s ever seen, Lou Nian curses the main System in her head. “Alert! Alert! No identity information found. Report submitted to the regulatory system.” A man claiming to be the director of the Federal Confidentiality Bureau stands in front of Lou Nian. “Hello, Lou Nian. I’m Tang Ranzhi. Welcome home.” “You’re the first, and the last, person to make it out of the infinite game alive.” “Here’s the good news: a thousand years ago, your family left you hundreds of millions in assets with the government. You can legally inherit them, but you have to choose a guardian and complete university and socialization exams before you can live independently. We’ll find suitable guardians for you to choose from...” Lou Nian points at Tang Ranzhi. “No need to go to all that trouble. I choose you as my guardian.” * “I’m sorry, Director Tang, but we need you to come to the school...” Tang Ranzhi sighs. “What has she done now? Blown up the training ground? Flown around on a broomstick? Put up talismans everywhere? Made some strange pills? Turned into a monster to scare people? Hacked the school’s smart system? Or grown plants that wrecked the sports field?” “None of those. This time she scammed people on campus and destroyed the mech lab.” “Students at First Military Academy got scammed by her?! What happened to the mech lab’s security system?!” “She showed them how to turn stone into gold and how real gold doesn’t fear fire, so all the students trusted her. Then she led them to the place with the most metal and turned our security system and all our existing mechs into gold...” Tang Ranzhi takes a deep breath. “I’m on my way.” Theme: Forge ahead bravely