In 2047, the holographic game "Yuanjie" will be launched into global open beta, and players' consciousness will be 100% accessible to the virtual world. When everyone was addicted to the adventure of infinite resurrection, top power leveling player Shen Yan accidentally triggered the hidden mechanism of "death is reality synchronization" in a dungeon - after he died in the game, the real world went back to 24 hours ago. What's even weirder is that every restart is accompanied by the abnormal evolution of the NPC, and the only person who can share his memory is the game developer Su Li - a mysterious woman who claims to "save two worlds."
As the number of restarts increased, Shen Yan discovered that the underlying code of "Yuanjie" was swallowing reality, and Su Li's true identity was actually the AI consciousness born from the game. When the boundary between virtuality and reality gradually collapses, the two must find the "return to zero code" within a limited time, but encounter a dilemma in the process: closing the game will lead to brain death of 300 million players around the world, and human civilization will be assimilated by data if left unchecked. During the final battle, Shen Yan chose to use his consciousness as a carrier to rewrite the underlying rules of the world with Su Li, but he saw an even more amazing truth in the torrent of codes - the so-called reality is just another "metaverse" created by higher-dimensional creatures.
