Game Invasion, I Am The Only Normal Player

(Safety Disclaimer: A completely fictional metropolis, managed by four major super-corporations and numerous small-to-medium enterprises; a typical corporate world.)

(Brain Storage: Reasonable power-progression style, will not lower the IQ of characters in the book, long-term updates, bugs are inevitable, will try to fix them, please forgive.)

Xu City, Jia City District.

Under the jurisdiction of Xu Corporation, the Corporate Security Department.

Inside an interrogation room fitted with iron bars.

The color palette is gray and white, cold and eerie.

A concrete wall embedded with thick bulletproof glass acts like a heavy barrier, completely separating the interrogator from the interrogated.

On this side is the interrogator; on that side is the interrogated. An old and a young security guard are taking a statement from a young man.

The young man being interrogated, named Gao Linzhi, remains silent.

Just an ordinary transmigrator, reincarnated into this corporate world, 23 years old this year.

A man in a strange world, halfway through his transmigration, with no system.

This is a place completely different from his previous life on Earth.

There are no nations, only corporations of varying sizes, similar to the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil, managing the birth, aging, illness, and death of the masses.

The rule is strict, the net is dense, the social strata are solidified, and the hierarchy is distinct.

Ordinary people without backgrounds can only make a little money.

The safety limit for wealth is 10 million.

Once you exceed 10 million, people will hunt you down.

Every year, there are always geniuses who, relying on their innate gifts—a good body or a sharp mind given by the heavens—want to make a fortune and leap across social classes, but it is basically a path to self-destruction.

Committing suicide with eight shots to the back, reincarnating into a stroke of luck, a rapidly rising unicorn company inexplicably falling into a broken capital chain and being swallowed up... these are common occurrences.

The only viable path is to kneel and become a dog for the wealthy families.

Sons-in-law, adopted sons, inner-circle disciples... these are the final destinations for the vast majority of civilian geniuses.

Yet, Gao Linzhi was born with the complete memories of his past life, and his pride was carried over from childhood.

His legs are not flexible; he cannot bring himself to kneel.

There are many differences between the two worlds, but the culture is quite similar.

Gao Linzhi had 20 years of experience reading web novels in his past life.

As long as he acted as a literary porter and polished his work carefully, reaching a net worth of over a billion would not be a problem.

Thanks to his past obsession with "rationalist" and "stealthy cultivation" novels, combined with the fact that the internet in this world is equally developed and people are always full of complaints that they can't delete in time, he was able to discover the truth of this world.

Thus, at 23, when he had only earned 8 million, he clearly felt some gazes focused on him, so he pretended to be unambitious and content with small wealth, decisively stopping his progress.

Fully paid-off house, fully paid-off car, 4 million in savings, still going to work.

The only thing left to do was wait for a cheat.

If there is a cheat, he will rebel; if there is no cheat, he will live a comfortable life.

At this moment, Gao Linzhi is not a suspect.

He is merely the second person to discover a suicide case, and he has complete video surveillance and witnesses to prove his innocence.

But looking at the posture of the Security Department, they are interrogating him as if he were a criminal.

The young security guard opposite is still turning his head to say something to the Old Security Guard:

"We should have put the handcuffs on him right from the start, given them a bit of a show of force, and I guarantee he would have spilled everything."

Hearing this, Gao Linzhi feels anger in his heart, but he can only endure it for now.

This is the true attitude of the lackeys of the Upper Echelon toward someone without a background.

Even if he is diligent, has no loans, a good family background, and pays his taxes on time...

Fortunately, he knows what benefits he obtained from that suicide scene.

The day of "not eating beef" is not far off now.

At this moment, a game panel is appearing in his mind.

[Player: Gao Linzhi.]

[Constitution: 5]

[Spirit: 7]

[HP: 50 (Constitution X10)]

[MP: 70 (Spirit X10)]

[Level 1]

[Experience: 0/100]

[Talent: The Only Ordinary Player (Dark Gold Quality Unique)]

[You carry the mysterious Power of Space-Time. After the incomplete Skyfall Game System possessed you and merged with it, you became the only ordinary player capable of enjoying the full game functions.]

[Other players only possess partial game functions: no resurrection, no health bars, no mana bars, but they can gain experience and materials from killing monsters, which are used for leveling up, allocating points, and upgrading skills.]

[Yes/No: Choose to enter the game now?]

He would certainly not enter the game; there were two hostile NPCs in front of him.

An ordinary player is like a Dragonborn; even if you hit a chicken, the whole city will chase you down.

"Engineer Gao, don't be afraid. We are just conducting a routine inquiry, just tell the truth," the Old Security Guard said kindly.

Gao Linzhi raised his head upon hearing this and looked at the two of them.

"Gao Linzhi, describe the process of discovering Li Ziming's death in detail. Do not omit any details, especially anything you took from the scene; you must confess everything!"

"You know the consequences of deceiving the company!" the Young Security Guard said sternly.

At the same time, he stared fixedly at Gao Linzhi with a defiant gaze.

His eyes held three parts suspicion, three parts pressure, and four parts disdain.

Gao Linzhi took a deep breath, fell into a state of recollection, and spoke slowly:

"At 10 o'clock this morning, Brother Li was late again."

"Just then, a client called with an emergency, demanding that a system bug be handled immediately, and that module was personally managed by Brother Li."

He paused here, and a terrifying image surfaced in his mind again:

Brother Li hanging from the ceiling, no longer wearing his usual good-natured smile.

There were only two bare, hairy legs, a ghastly pale face, dull gray-white eyeballs, and a protruding tongue...

Beneath those hairy legs, two items were placed.

A glowing blue orb.

And a black-and-white game poster:

"Skyfall game, a brand-new, era-defining, realistic otherworldly game. Blue Star people don't lie to Blue Star people!"

On the poster, there was also a line of very sloppy red characters written in blood: "If I refuse to be your dog, must I die?"

That was unmistakably Brother Li's handwriting.

And below it was a line of black text: "Yes!"

Having played many games, Gao Linzhi had subconsciously touched the orb with his foot while trying to save him.

And the customer service manager, Lin Qing, who went with him, seemed not to have seen the blue orb.

After a scream, she hurriedly stepped forward and picked up the game poster, then wore a look of surprise.

If he hadn't told her to call the police, she seemed like she would have turned and left immediately.

Thinking about it now, Gao Linzhi felt she seemed to know more things.

If Gao Linzhi were not a transmigrator, under normal circumstances, Lin Qing should have been the one to obtain the Skyfall game qualification.

This is reality; good luck is always someone else's.

When it comes to his turn, he is neither particularly unlucky nor particularly lucky.

It is just that he is a transmigrator, possessing the mysterious Power of Space-Time.

The Skyfall Game System absorbed his Power of Space-Time, which is why it gave him the complete game qualification.

Everything makes sense now.

At this moment, Gao Linzhi thought to himself while speaking aloud: