Midnight Hotline

Name: Midnight Hotline
Author: Cheng Zhiliang

by Cheng Zhiliang

ongoing Suspense Occult Mystery Male Lead

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15Kwords3chapters

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Ch. 3 — System Patcher

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About This Novel

996 programmer Cheng Zhiliang worked overtime to fix bugs and accidentally discovered that the entire city was a huge program - and every line of code he wrote was rewriting life and death in the real world. At 3:14 in the morning, there was only one light left in the office building of Lin'an Data Technology. Programmer Cheng Zhiliang stared at the strange system log on the screen and discovered that there was a module in the company's code base that no one had ever seen before - "Midnight Hotline". He thought it was a prank by his colleagues, so he clicked on it, but a line of text popped up on the screen: "You have accessed the system repair protocol. Current vulnerability: The elevator at No. 18 Wutong Road has leaked afterimage data, which is expected to cause three people to disappear. Please deal with it as soon as possible." Cheng Zhiliang closed the window and continued writing his daily report. The next day, the news broadcast: In the office building at No. 18 Wutong Road, three security guards mysteriously disappeared in the elevator. The surveillance camera only captured the elevator door opening and closing repeatedly, but no one entered or exited. Cheng Zhiliang was stunned - that warning was not a joke. From that night on, his life was completely torn apart. During the day, I am a 996 social worker at my workstation, fixing bugs in requirement documents; late at night, I am a vulnerability patcher designated by the "system", using code logic to crack urban legends. The cry for help came from the midnight radio station, the disappeared streets were wiped off the map, and the ghosts in the elevator were just data residue. Behind all the horrific events, a "system" that had been running for countless years was collapsing. What's even more frightening is that he discovered that the company's CEO Chen Yan, the cafeteria uncle Lao Zhou, and even the PM who urged him to change the requirements every day all had another identity. And he himself is not just an ordinary programmer...