Fifth Catastrophe: I'm the Game Designer in a Holographic MMORPG

Players think they're the fourth disaster? Wrong—the real demon lord is the game designer! Wu Shangheng, the laziest dev of 2070, spends his days watering his AI's digital cactus with coffee and coding 999 pages of backstory for an NPC's mom—then slapping a "killed by player" quest on her. He watches gamers tear each other apart over his twisted missions until he unlocks "World Editor" privileges, only to discover the system wants him dead. Wait, this busted game has a secret dungeon called "Master Slayer"?! Now this modern-day Scrooge runs the ultimate hustle: tricking players into paying to…