"Are you saying… as long as I complete the missions, my little sister will live?!"
In a blindingly white space, a twin-tailed girl seemed to be talking to the air.
"Yes. The host need only gather as much emotional feedback as possible. With sufficient feedback, not only can the host's sister be cured— the host herself can be resurrected and return to the real world."
A flat, mechanical voice echoed. The girl's slight chest rose and fell sharply; her heart was anything but calm.
"What if, while I'm doing the missions, my sister can't hold on?"
"Please set your mind at ease. During the host's missions, the flow of time in the host's original world will be greatly slowed. The system will also ensure the vital signs of all mission-related individuals."
Hearing that promise, the girl drew a deep breath. Her pretty, bright eyes turned as if she'd made up her mind.
"Alright. I accept."
Her reply rang firm and clear.
The instant she agreed, a smart display appeared before her, a white outline sketching a right hand on its surface.
"Please sign and seal."
Sign and seal?
She pressed her pale, slender palm onto the screen; it shivered faintly, then vanished.
A sudden, very real feeling washed over her—that she'd just sold herself.
No— not just a feeling.
She really might have sold herself…
But so what? She had already died once. To be given a chance like this was a stroke of incredible luck.
Her name was Jiang Mumu, twenty years old, on the short side—ordinary in most ways except for a cute, pretty face.
She had a younger sister, Jiang Wanníng, a year her junior.
Unlike her, Wanníng was tall, full on the big-sister vibe, and strong-willed. Compared to Mumu, she looked more like the elder sibling.
A few months ago, Wanníng was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer.
The blow was devastating. Her not-so-well-off family was crushed; their parents borrowed everywhere they could, their hair turning white in a matter of days.
Mumu took on job after job, studying fell by the wayside. Days and nights flipped as she hustled nonstop—until she collapsed while delivering takeout.
When Mumu came to, she was in this blank white space. A "system" told her to complete missions—do that, and her sister's illness would be cured, and she herself could return to life in the real world.
How could Mumu possibly refuse?
After a round of questions, she learned what her missions were.
Simply put, she would enter a game world as an NPC and then frantically collect emotional feedback—both from characters in that world and from players outside it. The more, the better.
"Please select a game world."
Mumu jolted and looked solemnly at the options. She chose almost without hesitation: Genshin Impact.
Because that was the only game she had really played—and her favorite.
Before her sister's diagnosis, Mumu had been a bona fide no-lifing grinder: 100% exploration on every map, Adventure Rank cap at 60. She'd even been planning to start fresh on a new account, but never got the chance.
She knew the story inside out; in the main quest she was already in Natlan—right up to the scene where the Pyro Archon shattered the false firmament with one punch.
For her mission—considering the goal—no game could be a better fit.
"Would the host like to open the newbie gift pack?"
A newbie pack?
Mumu silently thought, Open.
"Seven avatars ready for deployment. Please choose each avatar's nation and identity. Please design each avatar's appearance. Please choose each avatar's gender. Please set each avatar's personality. Please…"
A torrent of system prompts rolled over her. It took Mumu quite a while to react.
Reading carefully through the details, she straightened her expression, growing serious.
So she— no, her avatars—would truly descend into Teyvat as real residents?
From birth, even?
Her breathing quickened. Wasn't this a little too big for a first step?
And being expected to control seven avatars at once—could she really do that?
Questions bloomed like fireworks in her head.
After a long while, she calmed down and studied the gift pack again—those seven avatars.
Only when she started setting their actual genders, appearances, and personalities did she realize how hard "beginnings" are. She hadn't expected to get stuck on step one…
After riffling through other games and anime for reference, Mumu finally finished the designs for all seven.
She nodded at her handiwork, satisfied.
If this place allowed hunger, drowsiness, or fatigue, there's no way she could've finished so fast.
They were only foundational designs—broad strokes focusing on looks and core traits—yet it had still taken her ages.
And in the end, the avatars might not turn out exactly as designed; how they developed in Teyvat would shape them.
Per the system, if an avatar failed to thrive in Teyvat, they might not even obtain a Vision…
If that happened, the avatar's usefulness would be very limited.
"Is the host ready to enter the game world?"
Mumu checked all seven once more and only then said, "Confirm entry."
Teyvat.
Five golden beams and two violet ones dropped from the sky, striking seven far-flung places.
They came without a sound—not even the Seven could sense them.
After Diluc, the Mondstadt wine tycoon Crepus became a father again: another daughter. Overjoyed, he named his baby girl Ruola—Ruola Ragnvindr.
An ordinary couple welcomed a baby girl the same day. The father named her Qingge—"fresh as the seasons, singing all year long."
An old shrine-maiden lineage received a newborn daughter.
In Snezhnaya that night, a baby girl was born into a large family with several older siblings. Her father named her Anqi—his child after his son Ajax!
The moment the avatars set out for Teyvat, Mumu felt a mind-rending pain tear through her sea of consciousness.
"System—do something! I'm dying— I'm going to die!"
Clenching through the agony of a splitting mind, she screamed inwardly.
Thankfully, the reliable system intervened, reinforcing Mumu's spirit so she didn't collapse at once.
The aid arrived just before she would've shattered, easing ninety-nine percent of the strain.
With that support, she gradually got the hang of piloting the avatars.
They had different personalities—but strictly speaking, they were all her.
As they grew, the load mounted. Seven lives, each with its own rhythms—she couldn't micromanage them all.
By the time they were a year and a half old, she loosened her grip, letting go of hands-on control. Even without her steering, their lives would follow the personalities she'd set.
Rotating among them to "live their lives," Mumu grew to enjoy it.
Sometimes she even thought this wasn't so bad. Certainly better than being a beast of burden like before.
Whenever that thought bubbled up, she pictured her parents and her sister scraping by in the real world—and her resolve hardened again.
In a blink, seventeen years passed.
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