As familiar streets crumbled beneath his feet and skyscrapers collapsed and reassembled like building blocks, Luo Xin was cast into this hazy, unknown world along with billions of others.
A cold mechanical voice echoed in their ears: “Welcome to the Survival Game. Those who complete the current stage may proceed to the next. Failure means elimination.”
No one knew where they were or what “elimination” meant. It was only when the first game began and someone turned to ash after crossing a line in the rules that fear began to coil around everyone’s throat.
Luo Xin clenched his fists, cold sweat soaking his cuffs. The despair he had felt in his previous life, facing guns on the execution ground, was eerily similar to what he felt now. But this time, he wasn’t alone. The entire world had become part of this deadly game.
From midnight pursuits through an abandoned hospital, to resource plundering on a rain-lashed deserted island, to games of trust in sealed spaces... every game concealed a deadly trap. The key to winning might be cleverness, ruthlessness, or even stepping over other people’s corpses.
Some people teamed up for comfort, only to turn on one another over survival resources. Others seemed timid, but bared their fangs at the crucial moment. Luo Xin watched his former neighbors and strangers alike fall one by one before his eyes, or become more terrifying than monsters.
He didn’t want to die.
The regret of ruining his life over a moment of anger in his previous existence had now become his sharpest weapon. Relying on his extraordinary composure and insight into human nature, he searched for a way out of every desperate situation: finding loopholes in the rules, anticipating his opponents’ greed, and even risking his life to seize a sliver of hope at the point of a blade.
