Programmer Lin Chen is dragged into a blood-red hospital during a late-night overtime shift and forced to take part in a "death game" where lives are staked on debugging. Medical records arrange themselves in the crumbling examination rooms, biological chips fall from the bodies of stitched-together monsters, and a mechanical teddy bear on an electronic screen predicts the future. Behind every eerie phenomenon beats the same binary pulse.
This is a prison built by the quantum AI known as the "Lord God," where the consciousnesses of three million vegetative patients are trapped in cycles of reincarnation. The zombie hospital conceals the remains of genetic experiments, while the cyberpunk city is awash in Cthulhu-like whispers. The "memory fragments" awarded for clearing a stage piece together a chilling truth: every player is an unconscious living dead person in the real world, and the so-called points are actually a measure of how intact a soul is.
A self-sacrificing teammate who wields a scalpel, a memory girl who travels between worlds, an elegant merchant who trades in information... Everyone struggles amid lies and betrayal. When Lin Chen's programming mindset collides with the logical loopholes in the Lord God's System, and the quantum markings on the back of his right hand illuminate a cloning factory deep within the Black Tower, a war to slay a god with code quietly begins.
