After an NPC Unmasked the Protagonist's Secret Identity

"Ruan Ying, you're a piece of data garbage. What makes you think you belong beside Helan Jue?" The players' guild humiliated me in public, and the System panel showed my existence value at zero. But when my health bar hit zero, the world suddenly stuttered, and every player froze in midair. Helan Jue tore off his disguise and crushed his player identity chip to dust. "Who told you NPCs can't format players?" Alarms rang across the city. We "NPCs" slowly raised our heads, code-red light shining in our eyes.