2026-04-09 04:40:10Li Ming slouched in the back row of Class 3-2, chin propped on his hand, staring at the math problems on the board. Another ordinary Tuesday in Qingyun City.
His phone buzzed once under the desk. A message from his mom: Come home early. There’s talk of weird weather.
He ignored it. Weird weather in Qingyun was usually just smog or sudden rain.
Then the lights started shaking.
Not just the classroom's lights, everything. The sky outside the window flashed a deep, unnatural blue, as if someone had torn open the ceiling of the world. Students murmured. Phones lit up with notifications.
Li Ming sat up straighter. A massive transparent panel appeared in the air, visible to everyone at once.
[Welcome, inhabitants of Floor 0.]
[The Eternal Death Game has begun.]
[Survive. Grow stronger. Ascend the floors.]
[First Monster Tide begins in 23 hours, 59 minutes.]
Screams erupted outside. Cars slammed into each other on the street below. Li Ming’s heart hammered as he bolted for the window. The sky wasn’t blue anymore, it was cracked, jagged lines of white light spreading like breaking glass. Black shapes poured through the fissures. Things with too many legs and glowing eyes.
“Run!” someone yelled.
The classroom exploded into panic. Desks flipped. Li Ming shoved through the crowd toward the door, mind racing. This wasn’t a prank. This felt exactly like those web novels he’d stayed awake late at night reading, system, apocalypse, survival. Except he wasn’t the protagonist in any of them. He was just Li Ming, average grades, no special talents, parents who worked long hours at the textile factory.
He made it to the stairwell before the first monster hit the school grounds. A dog-sized creature with razor spines scuttled across the courtyard, leaping onto a screaming girl. Blood sprayed.
Li Ming didn’t stop. He kept running down the stairs, then out the side exit, into the alley behind the school. His legs burned. Shouts and wet tearing sounds chased him.
He turned a corner and slammed straight into another one.
The thing was fast. Claws raked across his chest before he could even raise his arms. Pain exploded, hot and blinding. He hit the ground hard, gasping as blood soaked his uniform.
[You have been fatally wounded.]
[HP: 0/120]
Darkness swallowed him.
Then…
Li Ming gasped awake, jerking upright in the same alley. The pain was gone. His shirt was whole, no blood, but his hands shook.
What the hell?
A new blue panel hovered in front of his eyes, different from the global one. This one was more private and personal.
[Reincarnator detected.]
[Memories intact.]
[Exclusive System awakened: Reincarnator’s Throne.]
[Throne Absorption (Lv.1): Absorb skills, stat bonuses, titles, and memory fragments from deceased players/NPCs within 50 meters.]
[Reincarnation Passive: Upon death, respawn at nearest Throne Anchor with permanent stat multiplier (+15% this death) and bonus integration.]
[Dungeon Sovereign (Locked): Reset cleared dungeons once per week.]
[Current Throne Anchors: 0 — Create your first at a secure location.]
Li Ming stared, breath coming fast. He remembered dying, the claws, the blood, the wet crunch. It hurt like nothing else.
But he was back. And this system… it was only for him.
He pushed to his feet, legs steady now. Notifications kept coming.
[Global Announcement: Safe zones shrinking in 72 hours.]
[First deaths recorded worldwide.]
Li Ming clenched his fists. If this was real, and it felt real, then millions were about to die screaming while the strong stepped on the weak. Guilds would form. Cheaters with early info would rig everything.
He wasn’t going to be fodder again.
A scream echoed from the school direction. More monsters. The first tide hadn’t even started yet, and the city was already falling apart.
Li Ming moved deeper into the alley, away from the noise. He needed to test this, quietly, smartly.
No rushing in like an idiot hero.
He found a cracked mirror leaning against a dumpster and checked his reflection. Same messy black hair, same ordinary face. But his eyes looked different now, it looked sharper, colder.
“Alright,” he muttered. “Let’s see what this Throne can actually do.”
A distant roar shook the air. Something bigger was coming.
Li Ming smiled thinly. In his last life, all fifteen minutes of it, he’d died like a nobody.
This time, every death would make him stronger.
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The Warehouse Door
Li Ming woke before sunrise in the quiet loading yard of the old textile factory. The second anchor felt solid under him, like a hidden safety net no one else could see. He stood, stretched, and checked the global timer out of habit.[Next Monster Tide: 5 days, 18 hours.]The city had grown louder overnight. Distant shouts, he could hear metal being hammered into barricades, and the scream when someone walked too close to a resident pack of shadow wolves or scuttlers. The monsters hadn’t vanished with the tide. They had simply spread out, smaller groups now claimed alleys, rooftops, and abandoned buildings as their territory. The big waves were gone, but Qingyun City remained a hunting ground.He ate a piece of dried scuttler meat from his inventory (the cooking skill fragment actually helped make it edible) and headed straight for the school sports field. The dungeon reset cooldown had nearly ticked over. One more run before the day got too crowded.The black door still hovered above
The Warehouse Door
Li Ming woke before sunrise in the quiet loading yard of the old textile factory. The second anchor felt solid under him, like a hidden safety net no one else could see. He stood, stretched, and checked the global timer out of habit.[Next Monster Tide: 5 days, 18 hours.]The city had grown louder overnight. Distant shouts, he could hear metal being hammered into barricades, and the scream when someone walked too close to a resident pack of shadow wolves or scuttlers. The monsters hadn’t vanished with the tide. They had simply spread out, smaller groups now claimed alleys, rooftops, and abandoned buildings as their territory. The big waves were gone, but Qingyun City remained a hunting ground.He ate a piece of dried scuttler meat from his inventory (the cooking skill fragment actually helped make it edible) and headed straight for the school sports field. The dungeon reset cooldown had nearly ticked over. One more run before the day got too crowded.The black door still hovered above
Echoes in the Streets
Li Ming left the sports field behind without looking back. The five bodies were hidden well enough behind the bleachers. By the time anyone found them, the blood would have dried and the dungeon door would still be his alone. He jogged toward the city center at an easy pace, new stats eating the distance. The leather vest he’d looted from the leader fit better than the old one, tougher, less noisy.Stats had settled after the kills.Strength: 54Agility: 42Vitality: 43Level: 17The Throne was getting greedy. Each death fed it faster now, like it was waking up.Qingyun City’s main roads were waking up too. Groups of survivors moved in packs of ten or twenty, dragging carts of scavenged food and weapons. Makeshift camps had sprung up in the wider intersections, guarded by guys with bats and knives. Li Ming kept to the side streets, fifty meters from the biggest crowds. Close enough to listen, far enough to stay invisible.A global announcement rang out as he passed a burned-out bus st
Second Run
Li Ming stood on the empty sports field,. The city noise was picking up, shouts, arguments, the clatter of people dragging barricades. Survivors were waking up to the new reality. He didn’t care. His inventory was heavier with coins and the new iron dagger. The Mana Bolt skill sat ready in his palm, a faint blue spark he could feel even without casting.He checked the system again.[Dungeon: Abandoned Warehouse – Cleared][Reset available: Once per week.][Resetting will increase all monster levels by 1. Loot scales accordingly.]One week cooldown, but he could start the second run right now. No point waiting. Every hour the other survivors grew bolder, and someone would eventually stumble on this door. Better to farm it alone while it was still quiet.He jumped up, grabbed the edge, and pulled himself through.The warehouse air hit him colder this time. Lights flickered the same, but the shadows felt thicker. The system updated instantly.[Reset complete.][All monsters now Level 5–8
The First Door
Li Ming walked the quieting streets of Qingyun City as the last of the monster tide faded. Dawn light cut through the cracked sky, bodies lay everywhere, human and monster mixed together like trash. The global system chimed once, loud in every survivor’s head.[First Monster Tide complete.][Casualties on Floor 0: 1,847,392 (global).][New dungeons spawning in low-population zones. First beginner dungeon detected within 3 kilometers.][Safe zones have shrunk 30%. Next tide in 6 days.]He didn’t stop to count the dead around him. His own body felt different now, stronger, tighter, the lizard scale fragments making his skin itch less against the new vest. Stats had settled after the reincarnation boost.Strength: 34Agility: 27Vitality: 25Intelligence: 15Mana: 11Luck: 10Level: 9The Throne had turned one stupid death into real progress. He tested Spiked Charge on a lamppost as he passed. The metal dented deep. Good.Most survivors who lived through the night were hiding or forming
First Reaping
Li Ming slipped between two wrecked cars, with his dagger low at his side. The second wave of the tide was worse. Bigger wolves howled through the commercial street, and a few spiked lizards the size of motorcycles had joined them. Survivors were down to maybe fifteen now, scattered and desperate. The four loudmouths’ group was gone, only their leader’s fresh corpse still fed the Throne.He stayed on the edges, always moving, always inside fifty meters of the heaviest fighting. Adrenaline Rush was on cooldown, but the new stats made his steps lighter, his swings harder.A wolf pack of three tore into a small family barricaded behind a flipped truck. Li Ming circled wide, staying forty meters back. The parents went down first. Then the kid.[Throne Absorption triggered.][Absorbed: Family Bond Fragment (Passive Lv.1) – Minor boost to protecting nearby allies (irrelevant for now).][Absorbed: Desperate Throw (Active Lv.1) – Accurate projectile toss once per minute.][Stat bonuses: +1 Ag
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