Wait, How Did I End Up Trending?!

Whoosh-!

The sensation of weightlessness vanished.

Shen Niannian's feet landed on the ground.

Before she could steady herself,

she stumbled forward two steps.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa-!"

Flop.

She fell headfirst onto the bed.

The soft quilt instantly buried her entire face.

The room was quiet for a few seconds.

A small, fair hand slowly rose from beneath the quilt.

(╥﹏╥)

"I'm back..."

"I'm finally back..."

No red moon.

No stench of corpses.

No slippers with mouths full of teeth.

And no A-rank yandere young lady who wanted to gouge people's eyes out at the slightest provocation.

Shen Niannian rolled over.

She lay on her back on the bed.

Looking at the familiar ceiling,

she felt for the first time just how warm her little rented apartment of just over forty square meters was.

"It's good to be alive."

(Ｔ▽Ｔ)

In just over two days,

she had learned for the first time

that the greatest happiness in the normal world was-

the walls wouldn't suddenly start talking.

A server wouldn't ask if you wanted an extra meal.

And when checking out, someone wouldn't casually crush a guest to death.

However,

before Shen Niannian could spend a few more seconds appreciating it,

system notifications popped up in her mind again.

[A-rank dungeon settlement complete.]

[Clear rating: S]

[Identity clearance upgrade complete.]

[Current clearance: Level 1]

[Ability "Inspection" has been enhanced.]

Shen Niannian immediately sat up.

Her drowsiness vanished instantly.

Here it was!

She had risked her life to clear an A-rank dungeon.

Wasn't this a big part of why she had done it?

"System bro, let's see it."

This time, the system didn't play dead.

[Inspection · Level 1]

[Can obtain more complete basic identity information about a target.]

[When the difference between the target's and the host's clearance is small, an additional piece of useful information relevant to the current environment can be obtained.]

[New function: Archive.]

[A basic file will automatically be created for special targets the host has successfully inspected.]

Shen Niannian blinked.

"That's it?"

The system fell silent.

Shen Niannian's expression grew increasingly disdainful.

(￢_￢)

"I risked my life to clear an A-rank dungeon. Fine, you didn't give me immunity to the rules, but I don't even get a fireball spell?"

Still no response.

Complaints aside, though,

she quickly realized the enhancement wasn't weak.

Before, [Inspection] could tell her at most:

what kind of weird creature it was,

what rank,

and what identity.

Now it could provide an extra piece of "information relevant to the current environment."

In a weird dungeon,

a single piece of vital information

really could save a life.

As for the archive...

With a thought from Shen Niannian,

a translucent interface opened.

[Special targets recorded: 3]

[Blood Moon Hotel doorman]

[Gu Changsheng]

[Bai Feiyue]

She opened Bai Feiyue's file first.

[Name: Bai Feiyue]

[Race: Vampire weird creature]

[Danger rank: A-rank]

[Identity: Young lady of the Blood Rose Family]

[Relationship with host: Insufficient clearance for a complete inquiry.]

Shen Niannian: "..."

(°ー°〃)

Here it was again.

Why did the system start saying she had insufficient clearance

whenever she looked up something related to herself?

She opened Gu Changsheng's file next.

The result was the same.

[Some related information involves a high-clearance identity and cannot be accessed.]

"..."

Fine.

At least she could be sure of one thing.

The person whose body she inhabited definitely hadn't been an ordinary college student before.

As for what she had been...

Shen Niannian thought about it.

She didn't keep dwelling on it.

As the saying went,

you had to eat one bite at a time.

And clearance had to be raised one level at a time.

She didn't even know exactly what the Weird World was like yet. Even if the system suddenly announced, "Congratulations, you're actually some big shot," she might not understand it.

First, she would figure out how to use what she had.

With that thought,

Shen Niannian picked up her phone.

The moment the screen lit up,

she froze.

Missed calls.

43.

Text messages.

99+.

All her social media apps

had blown up.

"?"

(・◇・)?

What was going on?

She had only been in the dungeon for two days.

Surely the real world hadn't already assumed she was missing and organized a schoolwide fundraiser?

The next second,

a notification popped up at the top of her phone.

[Shocking! Nineteen-year-old newbie enters a weird dungeon for the first time and clears the A-rank Blood Moon Hotel!]

The second one.

[First complete Blood Moon Hotel walkthrough revealed. Mysterious silver-haired girl's identity sparks heated discussion!]

The third was even more outrageous.

[Doorman bows ninety degrees, A-rank manager personally receives her, Blood Rose young lady claims she was once her maid-who exactly is Shen Niannian?]

Shen Niannian: "..."

(⊙_⊙)

She slowly opened a short-video app.

The top trending topic.

#WhoIsShenNiannian#

The second.

#BaiFeiyueMaid#

The third.

#DoNotCopyShenNianniansGuide#

The fourth.

#CompleteBloodMoonHotelWalkthrough#

The sixth.

#OthersInDungeonsVsShenNiannian#

Shen Niannian silently closed the app.

Then opened it again.

She checked once more.

Then closed it again.

"Wait."

"I just went into a dungeon..."

"Why does it feel like the whole world knows me?!"

(ΩДΩ)

The comments were even more out of control.

"I watched from the first minute to the last, and my biggest question is who she actually is!"

"The doorman's legs were shaking the first time he saw her!"

"Gu Changsheng is at the peak of A-rank, and he personally ran to room 701 to explain that there was no corpse oil in the cake!"

"The funniest part was when Chen Hao copied her and asked to change rooms. He died on the spot."

"Rule one of Shen Niannian's dungeon guide: Don't copy Shen Niannian."

"The Bai Feiyue part was even crazier! An A-rank weird creature was her maid for seven days when she was little!"

"And then there's the host of the Blood Moon Banquet! There isn't a single public record of a player ever being chosen!"

"I'm seriously starting to suspect she isn't human at all."

Shen Niannian saw the last comment.

The corner of her mouth twitched violently.

"You're the one who's not human."

"What part of me doesn't look human?"

She looked down at herself.

Silver hair.

Red eyes.

Less than 1.5 meters tall.

Then she thought about the hordes of evil ghosts trembling at the sight of her in the instance.

"..."

All right.

That was a little less convincing.

Meanwhile.

At the Jiangcheng Weird Management Bureau.

Inside a conference room.

The Blood Moon Hotel livestream recording was playing on a loop on the big screen.

The doorman bowed.

Gu Changsheng came to see her in person.

Bai Feiyue linked arms with Shen Niannian.

The red-clad waiter fled in panic.

Finally.

The footage stopped at the Blood Moon Banquet Hall.

[Host of this Blood Moon Banquet: Shen Niannian.]

Senior bureau officials filled both sides of the long table.

The room was unusually quiet.

An elderly man with graying hair slowly removed his glasses.

"Are you sure there's no record of her being a player before this?"

"None."

The young man in charge of intelligence answered immediately.

"Shen Niannian, nineteen years old, a first-year student at Jiangcheng University. Her public records are completely ordinary. There have been no records of anything unusual in the past nineteen years."

"What about her family?"

The young man paused.

"That's another problem."

He brought up another file.

[Father: No valid records]

[Mother: No valid records]

[Birth information: File missing]

[Extensive gaps in records of her life before age fourteen]

The expressions of several people in the conference room changed at once.

A normal person.

Shouldn't have a history like that.

Still less could they enter an A-rank instance for the first time.

And cause three high-level weird entities to behave in such an obviously abnormal manner.

The old man remained silent for a long time.

Finally, he closed the file.

"Let's not jump to dangerous conclusions."

"She is still a human player who successfully cleared the instance."

"And judging by the livestream, she didn't take the initiative to harm any other players. In the end, she even took the initiative to help Zhou Hai and the others gain the banquet's recognition."

Some people nodded.

Others raised a question.

"Should we make contact, then?"

"Yes."

The old man looked at the silver-haired girl on the screen, clutching her strawberry juice, her face full of wariness.

"But not for an interrogation."

"It's an invitation."

"She earned an S-rank clear rating on her first time in an instance, and brought out a complete guide to the Blood Moon Hotel."

"A player like that is worth protecting and nurturing in her own right."

Meanwhile.

In her rented apartment.

Shen Niannian was still studying those ridiculous trending searches about herself.

Ding-dong.

The doorbell suddenly rang.

She froze.

After everything she'd been through at the Blood Moon Hotel.

Now, whenever she heard knocking or a doorbell.

She had something of a conditioned response.

Shen Niannian put down her phone.

She tiptoed to the door.

(｡ŏ_ŏ)

"Who is it?"

A man's voice soon came from outside.

"Hello, Miss Shen Niannian."

"We're staff from the Jiangcheng Weird Management Bureau."

"We'd like to talk to you about a few things concerning the A-rank instance you just cleared."

Shen Niannian fell silent for two seconds.

She looked down at the top trending search on her phone.

Then looked at the door.

"..."

She suddenly realized.

Although the Blood Moon Hotel was over.

The quiet college life she'd originally wanted to live after transmigrating-

Seemed to have ended along with it.