The duty roster for Class 3-1 begins automatically crossing students’ names off.
First, Zhou Ming repeatedly fills his cup from an empty water dispenser. Then the dean mechanically praises a commemorative banner. Familiar faces gradually begin acting in limited ways and repeating the same lines, just like bugged NPCs in a game.
Chen Mo, a transfer student, finds that a ten-year-old “mass disappearance case” overlaps with the class’s summer field trip to an amusement park. The tech whiz Zhao Lei discovers that every anomaly follows a pattern. And the names in Lin Ye’s notebook are turning gray one by one.
When the seventh classmate starts repeating “July 15,” they finally realize that, on that amusement-park afternoon everyone had forgotten, they didn’t sign a “wish contract.” They signed away their souls to the rules.
Now the rules are about to “clean up the data”
“Warning: Players Lin Ye/Xia Xiaotang/Jiang Chi... Your memories are being formatted.”
“Clear condition: Recover the truth behind the sacrifice.”
“Penalty for failure: Remain in the data abyss forever.”
Seven boys and girls who have yet to become “NPCs” must expose this enormous scam, woven from their youth and memories, before they become strangers to one another.
