"Your eyes are a cheating device that is dirtier than doping." Three years ago, swimming champion Zhou Yunye was nailed to the pillar of shame in sports history due to a drug testing scandal. When the wheelchair rolled over the glass corridor of the Southern E-Sports Academy, he never thought that the career-ruining "surgery" had already buried something more dangerous into his spinal cord - the military-grade biochip "Ragnarok" was devouring his nerves, twisting dynamic vision into a fatal talent of 0.5 Seconds of prediction.
Lin Xiaoman, a talented sniper with short burgundy hair, broke into his dark night. The electromagnetic sparks emitted by her left prosthetic limb can burn through smart armor, but the removed frontal lobe prevents her from remembering the names of any of her teammates. When the two were fighting back-to-back in the virtual ruins of "Extreme Battlefield", the bullet trajectory split into blood-colored light spots on Zhou Yunye's retina, while Lin Xiaoman's gun barrel would always point to the coordinates of the arrival of death 0.3 Seconds in advance.
It wasn't until the underground garage on a rainy night that they uncovered the ultimate lie of the e-sports industry:
Twelve clones with the same DNA as Zhou Yunye were floating in the culture chamber, and Lin Xiaoman's replaced brain tissue specimens were sealed in the refrigerator. On the holographic sand table in the dean's office, the entire city is marked as a "neural amplifier" experimental site - those silver potions that allow players to break through human limits are nothing but gentle poisons that accelerate cell apoptosis.
**"The talents you think are all defective products produced in mass production."**
When the neon lights of the global finals illuminated the abyss of sin, Zhou Yunye's wheelchair was stuck between the quantum server room and the nuclear furnace. Lin Xiaoman was trapped by the electromagnetic lock——
