First Order Genetic Lock

"Who's there!"

Uchiha Yu whipped out a kunai, his gaze darting warily around.

And when he saw—

His blood ran cold.

Two figures stood on a thick tree branch.

If any other Uchiha clan member had spotted one of those faces, they'd probably have greeted him amiably: "Ah, Lord Itachi Uchiha, hard at work as always!"

But this was Uchiha Yu, who knew the plot.

If it were just Itachi alone, that might be one thing.

The other wore a mask, one eye exposed.

A man who played the fool in public, but in private was a deranged lunatic bent on creating a world where he could be with Rin—Uchiha Obito.

These two held no affection, not even sympathy, for the Uchiha clan.

Obito came to collect Sharingan for the Moon's Eye Plan.

Itachi came for the so-called peace of Konoha.

Either way, the Uchiha clan bore an original sin—being Uchiha meant deserving death.

"He saw us. Kill him." Itachi raised a shuriken.

"A trash without even a headband. Kill him." Obito spread his hands.

"Pfft!"

By the time Uchiha Yu registered that Itachi was about to kill him, his body was already flying backward!

He hadn't even had time to form a single hand seal for the Substitution Technique.

He traced a tragic arc through the air.

His vision blurred.

In his ears were the howl of the wind and the rustle of leaves in the distance.

He felt a searing pain in his chest—the fatal blow from Itachi's shuriken!

His body slammed heavily into the ground, dust flying.

His consciousness began to fade, but the shouts of Pirate World Fang Yu and Stephen Fang echoed clearly in his ears.

"Ninja World Fang Yu! Hang in there! We still need you!" Pirate World Fang Yu's voice was filled with urgency and unwillingness.

"Brother, you can't give up like this! We still have so much to do!" Stephen Fang's voice was equally desperate.

Hallucinations began to appear before Uchiha Yu's eyes.

He seemed to see himself successfully awakening the Sharingan, standing against Itachi and Obito. He saw himself escaping prison with Pirate World Fang Yu. He saw Stephen Fang fighting Thanos in the Marvel World.

But all of it blurred away as his life slipped from him.

He wanted to respond, to tell them he wouldn't give up, but the bloody foam in his mouth choked off any sound.

His body began to grow cold, his life force draining rapidly.

He felt his heartbeat grow weaker and weaker, each pulse a struggle against death.

"No... it can't end like this..." Uchiha Yu screamed in his heart. His fingers twitched slightly, but he had no strength left to grasp anything.

Obito and Itachi's figures had already vanished into the woods. They didn't look back, didn't notice his faint life force. They didn't even bother to dispose of the corpse.

Their target was the entire Uchiha clan. Uchiha Yu was just a minor incident in their plan.

Uchiha Yu's consciousness began to blur. He felt his soul about to leave his body. He struggled to hold onto the last shred of clarity, but darkness surged in like a tide, swallowing him whole.

In the moment before his final awareness faded, he heard the weeping and raging shouts of Pirate World Fang Yu and Stephen Fang. In another world, they seemed to sense his death.

Their hearts ached. Their fury burned!

Uchiha Yu's last words were silent: "Sorry, brothers. I did my best..."

Then, everything fell into silence.

[Do you want to know the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?]

Whenever Office Worker Fang Yu recalled those words, he hated his hand for clicking "yes."

If he hadn't clicked, maybe he wouldn't have ended up in such a hopeless situation!

"Not many newbies this time. Looks like the Ju-On movie isn't that hard. Let's just kill them first and save the trouble."

"Ah!"

Screams rang out all around, but Office Worker Fang Yu had gone numb.

His eyes had been gouged out, his limbs severed.

Like the other "Reincarnation Space survivors" stuffed into a few wine jars around him, he had been turned into a Human Pig.

Whenever they cleared a horror film, these human pigs would return to the Main God Space with a flash of white light.

Then they would trade the survival rewards they'd earned to the three Farming Team members named Da Qiang, Er Niu, and Meng Yao.

Because the points from multiple lying-flat human pigs supported the three of them, their individual strength was overwhelming.

Plus, the three of them controlled the number of Reincarnator Team members, which in turn controlled the difficulty.

So this team's survival rate was extremely high—horror films were practically steamrolled.

Fortunately!

As one of the human pigs, Office Worker Fang Yu was "lucky" enough not to have been discarded yet for difficulty control.

But being alive was no different from being dead.

Without hands, feet, or even eyes, even his survival was only temporary.

In this dangerous Reincarnation World, every minute and second should be spent striving to improve oneself.

And he had already "smoothly" gotten through three horror films, yet the dungeon difficulty was doubling.

If his estimate wasn't wrong, his life would end soon enough.

'Oh well, I might as well have died the moment I clicked "yes."'

"RUMBLE—"

The violent shaking sent Office Worker Fang Yu crashing around inside the wine jar!

He felt the world spin!

"CRACK!"

The jar shattered!

The car horns ringing in his ears made Fang Yu realize an extremely serious problem!

He had fallen out of the truck transporting the human pigs!

"Brother Qiang! We lost one meat pig!"

"Forget the pig! Damn it! Kayako's catching up! Slam the gas pedal to the floor! This thing's too vicious! Run first!"

A bone-chilling cold swept over Office Worker Fang Yu's entire body!

He instantly felt like he'd been thrown naked from a high altitude into the Arctic abyss at seventy degrees below zero!

Cold!

Freezing cold!

He shivered, wanting to hug himself for warmth.

But where were his arms?

Those hands of his had long been chopped off by that vicious woman named Meng Yao's small knife.

A piercing chill shot from his crown straight into his heart!

"Hehehehehe~"

An eerie sound echoed in his ears.

Having already watched the horror film Ju-On, Fang Yu realized what was happening!

The boss of this dungeon, Kayako, was standing right in front of him!

"Hehehe!"

The sound coming from Kayako's throat made every hair on Office Worker Fang Yu's body stand on end!

This was a shudder from the genetic level!

"Hehehe"

As the sound drew closer and closer, a fierce will to survive suddenly erupted from deep inside Office Worker Fang Yu!

I won't accept this!

Those three bastards!

I have to see them die!

I'll repay everything they did to me tenfold!

I can't die!

I can't die!

Let me live just a few more days!

Please!

Damn heavens!

"BUZZ!"

Office Worker Fang Yu suddenly realized he could "see" things!

No!

This wasn't through his eyes!

This was a Mental Power surging from the depths of his soul!

At the same time, countless memories flooded into his mind!

'Terror Infinity?!'

'Main God Space?!'

The memories synced in an instant, and Office Worker Fang Yu understood in that moment what was happening to him!

Gene Lock.

First Stage.

Open!!!

Meanwhile, in the forest outside Konoha.

A leaf drifted down with the wind, landing beside the hand of Uchiha Yu, who lay in a pool of blood.

His pinky finger.

twitched slightly.