I'm in an American comic book, and all my teammates are main characters and bosses.

Chapter 1: We, the people of Yharnam, are known for our warm hospitality.

Marvel, New York, Manhattan, the edge of Hell's Kitchen.

Sitting in the guardhouse, Ron sat at his desk, dressed smartly in a suit with a white coat over it and a stethoscope around his neck. He was looking intently at the files on the computer, his eyes full of thought.

Seeing Ron's focused expression, Peter Parker curiously approached. Upon seeing it was his own file, Peter Parker asked curiously:

"Dean, what are you looking at?"

"Hmm, I'm thinking about how to reduce costs and increase efficiency."

"Cost reduction and efficiency improvement?"

"Hmm." Ron nodded, staring at the computer screen without turning his head, and said, "Damn it, we haven't had a single patient lately, but we still have to pay the staff. Our wallets are starting to feel the strain."

Upon hearing this, Peter Parker nodded in understanding.

Indeed, according to the records, it has been two and a half months since the last mental patient left this private hospital, and there has not been a new patient. No wonder the director is so nervous.

Thinking this, just as Peter Parker was about to comfort Ron, he saw the Dean raise a finger, his expression as if he were thinking of Iron Bull Beef Noodles, and say:

"Hey! I've got it!"

"Huh?" Peter Parker looked at the dean with some confusion, while the dean eagerly said:

"This guy named Peter Parker looks pretty introverted. I'm thinking of delaying his salary for now, then calling him over later and making up some excuse about how much damage he's caused to get him fired. Otherwise, I'll drag him out into the street and slap him. Introverted people like him are most afraid of public humiliation. Oh, and his file says he's a student? Even better! He'll probably run away before he even asks for his salary!"

Peter Parker: "?"

Somewhat bewildered, Peter Parker stared at the dean's retreating figure. Before even graduating from university, he inexplicably understood why people hated capitalists so much—was this a solution even conceived by a human being?!

Why aren't you saying anything?

Hearing that there was no one to follow up, Ron looked behind him. Seeing Parker's simple, bewildered expression, Ron scratched his thick black hair: "Why don't you say... uh, speaking of which, you look kind of familiar?"

"Um... I am Peter Parker..."

Looking at the director before him, Peter Parker suddenly understood why the previous caregiver, Aunt Susan, had specifically told him before leaving that the most mentally ill person in the mental hospital was this frequently erratic director. Speaking of which, where was his employee handbook? He'd better look for it later…

Upon hearing Peter Parker's words, Ron glanced back at the photo on the screen, then at Peter Parker, a look of realization dawning on his face. He then leaned back in his chair, his expression utterly indifferent, and read aloud in a monotone voice:

"In Marseille, I thought you were one of the other employees."

"I'm the only employee in the asylum right now," Peter Parker said, rubbing his temples, feeling a bit overwhelmed. "And I'm a volunteer, no pay..."

Peter Parker inwardly sighed and pounded the ground. Why did the school have to assign him a job as a caregiver at a mental hospital during their volunteer work assignments? According to the school's rules, for the rest of his university years, every time he had to do volunteer work, he would have to come here…

Just as Peter Parker was lamenting inwardly, Ron slapped his forehead: "Oh! Is that so? Then I won't pursue the matter of you prying into secrets! Speaking of which, Peter Parker? That name sounds familiar..."

As he spoke, stroking his chin, Ron continued before Peter Parker could respond, "Right! Spider-Man! Were you bitten by a spider? Can you shoot those white spider webs from your hands? I'm talking about your hands, not the stuff you'd be holding in the middle of the night~"

"No, no, Dean, what are you talking about?" Hearing Ron's barrage of questions and associations, Peter Parker felt overwhelmed and quickly said, "I don't understand. What Spider-Man? What spider webs?"

Upon hearing Peter Parker's question, Ron paused, then stood there dumbfounded with his mouth agape. After a moment, he snapped out of his daze, gasped sharply, and sucked back the saliva that had dripped to the corner of his mouth.

"Damn it! He's having another episode! I'm so fed up with this lousy brain!"

As he spoke, Ron, looking bewildered, turned around and opened the cabinet with a disgruntled expression. He took out a handful of pills, didn't count them carefully, and stuffed them into his mouth, chewed them a few times with water, and swallowed them in one gulp.

After taking his medicine, Ron glanced back at Peter Parker, who still couldn't understand what had happened. Recalling that the boy in front of him was a volunteer who didn't ask for money, Ron relaxed and leaned back in his chair, slouching. He picked up an enamel mug he had brought back from the back kitchen of the antique shop next door and took a sip of cheap tea, saying:

"Don't worry about what just happened. It won't make a difference, because I've basically forgotten about it. I'm sorry if I offended you in any way, but that was done by Ron when he was having an episode. The current Ron knows nothing."

"..." Looking at the dean who seemed completely oblivious to what had just happened, Peter Parker fell into a long silence and deep thought.

Has the dean... really returned to normal?

Or is it that the dean exists in a semi-manic state, somewhere between normal and manic?

Ron didn't pay any attention to the silent Peter Parker, but he glanced at the clock on the wall out of the corner of his eye and immediately tensed up. Ron exclaimed "Holy crap!" and then quickly stood up, squinted and looked into the distance for a while. Then, he pushed and shoved Peter Parker, who still didn't understand what was going on, and kicked him out of the hospital.

"What, what's wrong?" Peter Parker's little face showed a heartbreaking look of confusion.

"Hurry up, bro! The guild members are coming soon. If anyone's still in the hospital after get off work hours, they'll get a RM! -- Damn! This isn't capitalist at all!"

After saying that, he returned to the guardhouse. Ron, who was also the security guard, caregiver, doctor, attending physician, hospital director, and patient, slammed the door shut and then put his feet on the table to continue his blatant slacking off.

Out of the corner of his eye, Ron saw Peter Parker turn and leave with a look of confusion and bewilderment, while he himself narrowed his eyes. Although he looked somewhat immature, and wasn't Maguire, Garfield, or Tom Holland, judging from the name and his Queens background, it should be Spider-Man Peter Parker without a doubt.

With that thought in mind, Ron also opened his system panel.

The system panel is very simple. Apart from personal attributes and personal inventory, there is also a system shop and system tasks.

Although it's said to have four sections, the other two panels, excluding the attributes and inventory, have actually been loading for over twenty years. They've been loading ever since I came into this world.

Five years ago it was already at 99%, and it's still at 99% now... Ron has good reason to believe that this system must have been designed by the programmers at Pinduoduo, otherwise there's no reason why the last 1% is so hard to load.

Having lived in this world for over twenty years, Ron has gained a certain understanding of it.

According to what the time-traveling system told me, the universe I was in was called the Abandoned Universe, a multiverse garbage can that had been corrupted by the World Virus. Basically, things from any world could appear here. My task was to ensure that this garbage can could operate stably and that other universes that were about to become abandoned universes could continue to operate stably and normally. If that didn't work, at least I could delay it until the higher-ups came up with a new solution.

Regarding why Ron was chosen to come into this world and be selected by the system...

According to the official explanation from the system, Ron's parents died, and his relatives abandoned him. He was self-taught and had very few friends. He was kind-hearted but destined for a short life. According to his predetermined fate, he would die suddenly from choking on water while washing his hair five minutes after the system's arrival, and his property would be confiscated. Considering interpersonal relationships and many other factors, even if he died, it would have no impact on the world itself. He had no special achievements in his life and was born with the body of an NPC. Therefore, he was sent to this garbage can universe as a spacetime anchor point for fixation.

It doesn't matter if he dies in an accident; the anchor point will restart, and we can just find a replacement. As payment, I'll arrange a life script like Xiao Yan's for Ron in his next life.

Of course, as a safety precaution, before officially entering the abandoned universe, a random instance world will be selected to enhance Ron's various abilities, preventing him from dying instantly upon birth in the abandoned universe. Even if he dies in the enhanced instance world, it doesn't matter; he will be directly reincarnated into the abandoned universe, carrying with him the gains, power, and memories from the enhanced instance world.

Then I was introduced to the Bloodborne universe.

He spread his hands and started selling.

What could Ron possibly say?

Bloodborne's world seems simple, and the game's presentation is at most just average, but once Ron delves deeper into this world, he discovers that it's utter garbage.

When Ron finally managed to kill the stupid spider Rom after going through countless hardships and restore the flow of time to Yharnam, he looked up and saw the moon approaching Earth at three thousand four hundred times the speed of sound after the flow of time was restored.

The person is numb.

In the idealistic DOG B worldview, anything is possible.

When time resumed its flow, the numerous distortions that Yharnam experienced caused Ron's spiritual consciousness to become unsustainable, and he died at the hands of the Cosmic Daughter before he could even see the Moon Goddess.

after that……

Without a moment's grief over his sudden death in Bloodborne, Ron entered the world next—

Abandoned universe.

Carrying knowledge from the Bloodborne world that was neither a blessing nor a curse, and a reborn infant body, Ron arrived in a desolate universe. Perhaps because this knowledge could not be precisely defined, coupled with the fragmentation of different ideologies across multiple worlds, the end result was that Ron could not accurately determine the state of his rationality.

But arriving in a seemingly relatively normal world was still a relief. Arriving at the orphanage, he pondered what kind of world this was, only to discover that due to his mental breakdown, he was completely unable to integrate into society. Adding to this, the system entered a loading state for unknown reasons, and Ron drifted through more than twenty years in a daze…

However, it seemed to be the first time the system had performed this kind of work, so Ron's soul was also affected by the information shocks from the multiverse when traversing worlds, causing him to occasionally go into a frenzy. This condition had been developing for twenty years, and now he would occasionally go into a frenzy even under normal circumstances.

This made Ron very resentful, and he even appealed to the system. But the system's response was that as compensation, he would be reborn as an invincible protagonist, the kind who gets all virgins and all lovers.

What could Ron possibly say? Xiao Yan's first chapter was called "The Fallen Genius," and if he didn't have to fall, wouldn't he be ecstatic?

And so, as it is now, thanks to the system's arrangement, I avoided sixty years of detours and directly inherited the orphanage director's legacy in this universe. Starting from dropping out of high school, I worked as a security guard at this mental hospital for more than ten years—why is the orphanage director's legacy a mental hospital?

Because after spending time with Ron, the orphanage soon had no normal people left. Gradually, it became a mental hospital for the mentally ill.

Another accident killed a large number of people here, and after a lot of inexplicable negotiations, only Ron was left here.

In other words, the system has a conscience and transfers a small amount of money, enough for Ron to eat and drink, from the corpses' accounts in this world every month. Otherwise, Ron would have died long ago from organ failure due to excessive intake of northwest wind.

It's not that the system is petty and stingy, only giving Ron a small sum of money. Rather, too much money would attract the attention of the tax authorities... In the system's words, the trash can universe is a huge, special mountain of code. It's best not to make any major changes unless necessary, otherwise it will be difficult to fix if problems arise, and the trash might leak out prematurely.

It can only be said that the quality of the system needs to be lowered. Look at the neighboring island nation, why don't they just secretly leak into the universe or drain the common area and drag everyone down with them?

Huh? The universe next door is yours too? And it's all under the control of the One World Tree?

That's fine.

"..." After reflecting on his recent wild thoughts, Ron was also stunned for a moment, then took a sip of cheap tea—damn it, he started having wild thoughts again. Damn the only World Tree, it didn't even do an experiment before transmigrating, which is why his thoughts are always going wrong.

Just then, a soft "ding" sounded in Ron's ear.

Huh? Someone's cheating?! Feng Lingyueying?!

Hearing this voice etched deep within his DNA, Ron became alert. He subconsciously looked around before belatedly realizing that the voice came from the depths of his mind.

Thinking this, Ron also focused his attention on the system panel in his mind.

(End of this chapter)