Don't Talk to the Players

Gate guard Qin Fei gets labeled: the father of Long Aotian, who dies a gruesome death.

Qin Fei: “?? So being single is how I stay alive?”

This is an anti-fourth-wall-breaking story. A thick fog descends upon the world, bringing with it “players” from an infinite-stream game.

Inside the instances formed by the fog, the world sealed off by the fog overlaps with another world. Everyone diligently pretends to be an NPC, because it's the only way they might survive.

But some people begin trading with the “players.”

They get items from the players, but using those items comes at an extraordinary cost...

In the process, Qin Fei discovers that a gate has opened between this world and a disaster-ridden world. That world is now mixed in with both them and the players. The gate must be closed to restore the world to its original state.