A thousand “lucky ones” from around the globe are forced into a deadly game called “The Final Trial.” Every stage is a life-or-death gamble: obey the rule “Don’t look back after dark” in a cursed amusement park, find the “absolutely safe zone” in a city besieged by zombies, or uncover the taboo “The living must not enter the ancestral hall” in an ancient haunted village...
Lin Ye is an “outlier” in this game. While others survive by being cautious, he coasts to victory using System bugs: he can get zombies to open doors for him, make vengeful ghosts find clues, and even turn a stage’s boss into a “temporary teammate.”
Everyone thinks he’s the chosen one. Only Lin Ye knows that what he’s bound to isn’t a “survival System” at all, but a “bug collector” on the verge of breaking down.
But as the stages grow more difficult, he realizes that these bugs seem to hide the truth about the game. This isn’t a trial at all, but a hunt targeting “anomalies.” When the System warns, “Too many bugs will trigger a world reset,” Lin Ye grins, holding a backpack full of “cheat items.” “Then I’ll make this broken game play to the end with me.”
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