Protagonist Hunter

Protagonist Hunter is a multiverse infinite flow web novel by Wild Mountain Black Pig, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network and completed in November 2017, totaling approximately 3.4 million words across more than 1,400 chapters. The protagonist, Lin Qing, enters a series of original worlds and film, television, and anime storylines bearing the sole attribute granted by the Space: Arrogant and Ruthless. Yet he is saddled with a brutally unforgiving setup: he always lands as a nameless bystander, cannon fodder, or unlucky wretch with negative luck; he is a born Enemy of the Protagonist and Spare Tire for the Heroine, automatically maxing out the original protagonist's hostility with no way to improve it; and in every world he must complete three Ring-Shattering Missions or be erased by the Space. Against this stands a single divine perk: once he completes all three Ring-Shattering Missions, he can completely shatter the original storyline's protagonist halo, seize its luck value, and exchange it for the target's techniques, skills, and even social connections and female characters. Thus Lin Qing, in worlds as varied in style as The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, The King of Fighters, and Resident Evil, fights his way up from the very bottom again and again through cunning, scheming, leveraging others' strength, and improvised reversals, dragging down from the altar those protagonists who were destined to reach the top. The book advances in dungeon-based arcs, with plotlines interlinked through labyrinthine space missions, while the throughline follows Lin Qing—caught between hunting and being hunted—as he constantly levels up his strength, uncovers the truth of the Space, and ultimately arrives at an ending that is his own.