Yu Ke woke amid blood and the ashes of an explosion. Instead of relief at surviving, she received a cold congratulatory message from the System and a reward named "Wu You."
Her SSS-clear rating brought her neither a generous haul of points nor a life of ease. Instead, it saddled her with one forcibly "gifted" teammate after another: Lin Jian, furiously calculating things in the air inside an abandoned hospital strewn with corpses, utterly ignoring the living; Qin Zhao, humming as she dismantled deadly traps in a silent alley; and Shen Heng, smiling as he counted ammunition reserves on a battlefield roaring with gunfire...
Every one of them was extraordinarily talented and brilliant, perfect in a way no ordinary person could be, and yet... so strange it was suffocating.
Yu Ke gradually realized that this supreme rating might not be a blessing at all, but a cursed notice of arrival in an even deeper abyss. Each of the teammates forced to travel with her seemed to carry a heavy past, locked away by the System.
When she accidentally pushed open that forbidden door and glimpsed the twisted truth beneath the chains, Wu You, the one at the head of the group, leaned down and whispered with a soft laugh in her ear:
"Now you're an accomplice too."
Behind her, every surveillance screen abruptly turned blood-red. A piercing alarm tore through the stillness of the entire space
