Chapter 1 I've Been Banned?!

"What the—?! My account's been banned?"

She had already entered the game, but when Mingmei opened her eyes, she found herself still in the game's backend interface, her entire screen flashing red alerts.

The warning indicated that her boxed lunch NPC had been banned in this round!

"What the heck?!"

Mingmei was completely startled by this scene.

[Host, why don't you switch accounts? Your NPC probably can't enter this round.]

"I want to know what's wrong with my account?"

[Probably destroyed by the Boss inside, so you can't get in.]

"No way? I've never even touched this game before, and I'm already banned?! Or did it recognize that I'm still 'underage' and 'ban' me?"

This game was one she had never entered before, and one of the few among her uncle's survival games that was only for adults.

In other words, minors were prohibited.

Because Mingmei had changed her age for school purposes, she hadn't reached the legal adult age.

If it weren't for the Zerg incident, she definitely wouldn't be able to enter this game now. Therefore, Mingmei suspected that her uncle hadn't modified some of the data yet.

However, the game's name was quite nice, called "A Maiden's Heart," a name that sounded very girlish.

But according to Ghost's feedback, this game placed too much strain on players' psychological endurance, so much so that even adult players were limited to playing it once a month.

After playing, they had to undergo a psychological evaluation because the game was very educational. Therefore, even though the game was often reported for its disturbing plot and overly HS (hyper-sexualized) and violent scenes,

It was a miracle that it could still barely stay online.

The aforementioned disturbing, bloody, violent, and sexual scenes referred to the situation before the game broke down.

Mingmei couldn't imagine what the game would be like after it broke down.

At this moment, Mingmei probably had a clue in her mind. This Boss should be one of the few "real person NPCs" that Mu Chen had mentioned, the kind without a body.

"Ghost, do you have any information about the Boss in this game?"

[This round's Boss has a prototype. Because she has antisocial personality disorder, she killed nearly half the people in the school, using extremely cruel and bloody methods.

When she was caught, she was a minor, and her remorseful attitude in court was very sincere. The judge gave a light sentence, sentencing her to five years of labor service on a desolate planet. This sentence was heavily criticized on the Star Network at the time.]

"Of course. She killed half the school, and only got five years of labor service? What must the parents of the dead students be feeling?"

Just listening to it, Mingmei couldn't help but want to say, "If apologies were useful, what would the police be for?"

[In addition, when that student was serving her sentence on the desolate planet, she committed the same crime again, secretly killing prisoners who were also serving their sentences, and was caught again.

Although this matter wasn't made public, this time she was directly executed. Then, Mr. Yan Hui extracted her mental body and threw it into the game, redesigning the plot and background, letting her stay in the game, planning to let her break free only when she truly recognized her mistakes and paid the price for them.]

After all, there was a term called "living worse than death."

It would be quite tragic to be trapped in the game forever without being able to find release even after death.

"But judging from this, she doesn't seem to have repented, and she's even colluding with the Zerg?"

The piercing alarm was still ringing in Mingmei's ears, and she couldn't help but sigh.

She didn't have any thoughts about this Boss. She just felt sorry for the mysterious merchant NPC in this world!

How miserable!

She hadn't even entered yet, and her data was already gone.

[This game isn't for someone your age in the first place, so... when protecting your mysterious merchant NPC character, it didn't immediately associate with the data of the mysterious merchant in this game. So, by the time we realized something was wrong...]

"Yeah, I was already banned. I get it." Mingmei nodded with a grave expression. "So, I don't have to sell boxed lunches this round, right?"

[That's not necessarily true. You still have to sell them, but they won't have any function when eaten.]

Mingmei: ???

Was this some kind of consumer fraud?

"This... how can it be like this?"

Although Ghost said that, Mingmei didn't think Ghost could do it.

[Why not? Don't worry, Host, I've already chosen a character for you. You'll be the hot dog vendor at the school gate.]

"Wait!"

Mingmei felt like something was wrong with Ghost's arrangement.

"Why a hot dog vendor? I remember the main map of this game is the school, right? Shouldn't the players be playing teachers or students? At the very least, they should be playing the school cafeteria auntie, right?"

Mingmei actually didn't want to be a cafeteria auntie, but compared to being outside the school, Mingmei felt that she could "sacrifice" herself.

[Host, actually... the player account was also destroyed by the Boss.]

Mingmei: ?????

What the heck did she just hear?

"Is it that scary?"

[Yeah, not only you, this game was originally a rare single-player game. Now, the player character account is also personally controlled by the Boss.]

Mingmei: ???

What kind of outrageous game is this?!

Mingmei suddenly felt like she couldn't understand anymore.

Seeing that Mingmei couldn't understand at all, Ghost briefly introduced the gameplay.

Because this is a single-player role-playing game, the player plays the Boss herself.

Having experienced the Boss's past, the player must prevent the character they are playing from turning evil and doing terrible things through some details inside.

However, the current situation is that there is no need for players to play, this Boss herself has automatically turned evil 100%.

So that the entire world of the game is now controlled by her.

"Then what's the point of playing? My NPC account is destroyed, and I can't enter as a player either, this..." Mingmei thought that Six Six was joking.

[No, Host, listen to me. Mr. Yan Hui has secretly changed some things in this game. You will enter as a background character in the game, not only you, but other players are also like this. You are not fighting alone!]

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"So, you're also in here as a background character?"

Mingmei looked at Mu Chen, who was dressed shabbily as a milk delivery worker. Mingmei suddenly felt that the role she was playing was not bad.

Mu Chen, this milkman, really had to run around the city to deliver milk!

And she was only separated from the place where the story really happened by a wall, not exposed to the wind or rain.

"I just asked the school gatekeeper." Mu Chen took out the milk of some unlucky NPC and handed it to Mingmei, and said, "The school is a boarding school, and they usually order milk, but not from my company."

Mingmei: "You mean...?"

"I'm going to switch jobs. To the company that provides milk to the school." As he said that, Mu Chen took out a newspaper from his pocket, which had recruitment information about that milk company.

Mingmei was stunned by this.

"That's possible too?!"