There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

"Next, you will have five minutes to listen to the map rules. Please remember the map rules, as they can ensure your safety to the greatest extent,"

"Rule one: You must maintain your identity at all times—remember, at all times."

"Rule two: You need to infer the characteristics of the role you are playing based on certain information."

"Rule three: If your performance evaluation at the end is below 30%, you will lose half of your props at random. If it is below 60%, you will fail and be removed from the game. If it is above 90%, you will pass perfectly."

"Map content: You need to impersonate a character and will receive a performance evaluation at the conclusion of the map."

The brief prompt sounded in Chen Yi's ear, and with a flash of white light before his eyes, he found himself inside a room, approximately ten or so square meters in size.

There was a single bed with the quilt messily pushed to the corner, along with some clothes that had been haphazardly stripped off and crumpled into a pile; a few pairs of socks were thrown on the floor, and the curtains were tightly closed with no lights on, casting the room in a twilight gloom.

In the whole room, besides a bed and a wardrobe, there was only a computer desk.

On the computer desk was an ashtray stuffed with cigarette butts, with several butts spilling out; the desk was also sprinkled with some ash.

It was clear that the owner of the room was not particularly fond of cleanliness.

However, the computer screen was brightly lit, with a dozen browser tabs open, indicating the room's prior occupant had been quite studious.

Yet the titles on the browser made one's skin crawl.

"What solvent can perfectly dissolve human hair?"

"How long would it take for a pet dog weighing around ten pounds to consume a hundred pounds of meat?"

"Can a strong acid solution completely remove bloodstains?"

"Can bloodstains cleaned with a strong acid solution still be detected by police ultraviolet light?"

"How to completely eliminate dander, fingerprints, and hair from the house."

"..."

Chen Yi silently looked at the browser pages displayed on the computer screen, lightly sniffing the barely detectable scent of blood in the air, he could roughly imagine the scene he would encounter upon opening the door and stepping into the living room.

At that moment—

A panel popped up before him.

"Ding, the role you are playing is a young man whose personality has greatly changed due to a failed business venture and who is now completely immersed in games every day. As you refuse to interact with the outside world because of your addiction to games, your wife could no longer stand it and claimed she would go out to work, or else all three of you at home would starve to death,"

"But you didn't allow it, as you had your wife quit her job to become a full-time housewife when your business achieved some success."

"You took her claim of wanting to find a job as an insult to you, and a fierce conflict arose between you and your wife."

"In an accidental loss of control, you killed your wife."

"After the initial panic, you quickly calmed down, convinced that you couldn't let the rest of your life be ruined like this, you decided to destroy the body, dismembering your wife's corpse completely."

"However, dealing with a corpse turned out to be more difficult than expected. Just when you had finished disposing of it, the people living downstairs had already reported to the police due to the strong smell of blood coming from your floor—because before they smelled the blood, they had heard loud arguments from upstairs which had suddenly stopped, followed by the overpowering odor of blood."

"The police will arrive in 4 minutes. You have these 4 minutes to think about how to better play the identity you are now impersonating,"

"ps1: The map evaluation will score you based on how perfectly you play this identity."

"ps2: If you manage to successfully exculpate the identity, you will earn bonus points and there will be secret rewards,"

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes as he stared at the pop-up prompt before him, his mind quickly beginning to race.

He had 4 minutes left.

...

"The scent of hell is truly fragrant, isn't it?"

Sword Without End stood with one hand behind his back, his foot on Wang Yimei's head; beside him, a three-foot Green Peak sword trembled slightly mid-air. After gazing distantly towards the horizon for a long time, he finally looked down at Wang Yimei, whom he was stepping on, and said with a hint of emotion,

"Now, why would you provoke anyone other than Chen Yi?"

"Chen Yi specially sent me to kill you here in hell,"

"Have you lost your mind?"

Wang Yimei, his head ruthlessly pinned under Sword Without End's foot, struggling violently to no avail, couldn't help but scream in desperation: "How much did he pay you to kill me, even going so far as to descend into hell to do it?"

"Besides, I have no grudges with him. Why would he target me like this!"

"The only conflict we had was on the Werewolf Kill map, but he was the one who attacked first. He tricked us into that dark courtyard, and in the darkness, he struck without warning. If there is any grudge, it's mine against him!"

"Why is he targeting me?"

"You cursed him,"

"Impossible, I'm not an idiot. Chen Yi is the player who killed a boss with a single shot in a world event. As long as my brain isn't faulty, I would never curse him,"

"That's what I thought,"

Sword Without End nodded solemnly, agreeing, "Logically speaking, not many dare to curse Chen Yi to his face these days, but the reason for your death given by Chen Yi is indeed because you cursed him. If it wasn't because you cursed him online, then it's very likely that you cursed him in your heart and got caught."

"It looks like Brother Chen Yi must have a prop that allows him to hear others curse him in their hearts."

"A prop?"

Wang Yimei, still angry just moments ago, suddenly froze, his eyes filling with intense regret. He had indeed cursed Chen Yi in his heart, more than once, but who would have thought Chen Yi possessed a prop that could hear one's inner voice!

Had he known this, he definitely wouldn't have cursed Chen Yi.

But Sword Without End didn't waste any more words.

With a little force on his right foot, Wang Yimei's head beneath it burst open like a ripe watermelon!

'Ding——'

As Wang Yimei's consciousness rapidly dissipated, a notification sounded abruptly in his ear.

'At 3:21 PM on June 18th, in the SSS-tier map, Hell, you were completely eliminated and will permanently lose the chance to return to the main game. From now on, you will become a janitor and spend the rest of your life in this role.' Your next journey awaits at empire

He floated in the darkness for who knows how long.

When Wang Yimei opened his eyes again, he felt his consciousness momentarily stall, his body seemed to have changed, a bit bloated. Struggling to look down at his body, his eyes filled with terror!

Somehow, his stomach had swollen to a full two meters in diameter, the whole person was sporting an enormous belly!

Immediately after.

He discovered a panel popping up in front of him, and his body moved uncontrollably, drifting far into the void in front of him.

'Ding, unfortunately, Wang Yimei, due to your complete defeat in the main game, you have become a janitor.'

'As a loser of the game, you need to make yourself useful here until the end of your remaining life.'

Before him lay nothingness.

It wasn't like the universe, but rather a vast and boundless grey space, and not far away, a sizable piece of trash was slowly drifting in this space.

Wang Yimei, filled with terror, found that his body was completely beyond his control, flying straight toward that piece of trash.

As the distance to the trash grew larger, he could see clearly what it was.

It was the carcass of a long-dead Minotaur Monster!

"No, no, no!!!"

Wang Yimei couldn't help but scream in near panic, his eyes filled with fear, yelling, "No!"

However, as if destiny doesn't bend to human will, Wang Yimei's body slammed directly into the dead Minotaur Monster and then opened his mouth wide, biting fiercely into the carcass in front of him!

One bite, two bites, three bites!

Just three bites were enough for Wang Yimei to completely swallow the long-dead Minotaur Monster.

His mouth had changed as well, becoming large enough to swallow a person!

The intense stench of decay and the pungent smell of blood, along with the wriggling maggots he could feel, filled Wang Yimei's eyes with tears, and he screamed silently in utter breakdown.

He finally understood the fate of the monsters he had killed outside the city—their corpses disappeared in a flash of white light, but he never knew where they went.

Now he knew.

They ended up here.

The so-called janitor was to swallow the carcasses of monsters slain by players into his own stomach.

He had imagined countless times what might happen after death: walking the Road to the Underworld to drink Meng Po Soup, going to Heaven to confess before God, being reincarnated to live another life, or simply fading into nothingness, losing all consciousness.

But of all the possibilities he imagined, he never thought that he would become a janitor after death, swallowing the long-decayed carcasses of monsters in this vast and void space.

Wang Yimei looked up into the distance, his face full of despair. In this space of nothingness, there were still many monster carcasses floating around, most of them long decayed, their stench so foul that it induced vomiting just by approaching them.

One, two, three!

After he had eaten who knows how many,

Finally, a panel popped up in front of him.

'Ding, congratulations, you have completed the janitor's tutorial. You should now be clear about the janitor's duties and how to perform your work. From now on, you will have full control over your body.'

'Every day, you need to swallow at least three monster carcasses to complete the daily task, and if you fail to do so, you will be punished.'

At that moment—

He suddenly spotted another janitor player with a distended stomach, floating not far away. It appeared to be a man, but this man's face did not show fear; instead, he seemed quite relaxed. Upon seeing Wang Yimei, a hint of amusement flickered in his eyes.

"Yo, got a new guy here?"

"Don't worry, the tutorial might look a bit scary, but being a janitor isn't that disgusting. Most of the time, it's quite normal."

"Now that you're here, we're all brothers. As an old-timer, it's naturally my duty to teach you some tricks of the trade as a janitor."