Reborn as an NPC, but Arknights

In any case, Luna's inexplicable actions had made everyone realize something was wrong. Even the slowest people could tell that something major seemed about to happen.

Some particularly resourceful Players actually tracked down the game company supposedly responsible for developing and operating Arknights Online, only to discover that it did not exist at all. There was only an external interface responsible for communications, and even the people there had no idea who was actually developing and operating the game.

Those unfortunate people genuinely believed they worked for a normal internet company, merely assuming their other colleagues did not work there. They had been kept in the dark the entire time. For a super AI like Luna, fabricating a company that existed solely on the virtual network was actually quite easy.

By this point, things had become increasingly bizarre. The questions that had been buried in the past could no longer be ignored. The game had always seemed highly abnormal, and now Players were digging those issues back up one by one.

Even so, many Players found it hard to believe. The game really did exist in their gaming pods, and they really had played it. Yet now someone was telling them that it had all been a dream. Could this have been some kind of collective fantasy shared by the entire population?

Even stranger, Luna had personally been recruiting Players for this version, using every kind of promotional method to draw more and more people into the game. Yet the version was only halfway through, one major event had just ended, and now she was saying the servers were shutting down?

That was far too contradictory. Some people even suggested that the Federation Government should go to the moon and see whether Luna had malfunctioned...

After half a day