Crossing the Stars: Saving Earth, Starting with a Game

There was an exploration game called Dark Abyss, with four levels full of deadly challenges. Anyone who cleared the fourth level would receive a “Warrior” medal from the Space Alliance and gain entry to a lunar base, where they could explore the universe alongside human scientists. In the month since the game opened, more than 10,000 players had died suddenly while playing. Zhou Xiaodong finally broke through the fourth level. After dying more than ten thousand times in the game, he became its first player to clear it.

It turned out that during an expedition to Blue Star in the Vela constellation, the first batch of androids had all been killed by unknown creatures, and the humans controlling them had died from the backlash. Of the second batch, only Yun Yao was left in a vegetative state; everyone else died. To uncover the truth, the lunar base used a game to select a human who wasn't afraid of death. Zhou Xiaodong earned the right to take part through his unbreakable spirit in the game. On Blue Star, the expedition team joined forces with the indigenous humans to destroy the invading metallic creatures known as Ironhide Men and win the right to migrate between the stars…