On the eve of Lunar New Year’s Eve in 2025, delivery rider Chen Xu receives a strange order: a VR headset that can connect to the Underworld, packed inside a gaming pod bound for a cemetery.
Forced to become a player in “Underworld Online,” he discovers that the game can cost him his life:
- The beginner dungeon has him livestreaming a finger heart to a zombie granny.
- Viewer gifts include lifespan rockets and milk tea made with Meng Po Soup.
- His teammates are a sharp-tongued forensic pathologist and a funeral influencer with social anxiety.
And his cheat ability is the “Underworld Filter,” which can beautify vengeful ghosts into virtual idols.
As a cyber City God temple encounters an electronic Book of Life and Death, and a ghost wedding turns into a metaverse temple fair, Chen Xu gradually discovers:
- Reality changes along with the results of every game.
- A former player’s blood-written warning is hidden in a System glitch.
- The laughing viewers posting comments... might not be alive at all.
Before the Lunar New Year countdown reaches zero, he must use absurdity to fight terror and laughter to rewrite life and death, because the recipient of his final delivery on New Year’s Eve is a cyber Nian beast that devours time.
