When the numb programmer Lin Xi received a strange "life suspension notice" and witnessed his wife and daughter disappearing out of thin air in front of his eyes, he thought it was an illusion on the verge of collapse. The next second, the cold forced offline announcement dragged him into hell - the familiar city collapsed into twisted data ruins.
The world he lives in was originally called "Virtual Realm", a huge and sophisticated virtual cage that is coming to an end. The rules are distorted, the environment is pixelated and dissolved, and "data monsters" bred by system loopholes and fragments of collapsed "player" consciousness wander around. Those with the highest authority are indifferent and leave no trace, and the humans trapped in them breed "human bugs" that are more cruel than program bugs in despair.
The only beacon is the real but unrecognizable wife Su Xiaorou on the hospital bed - the information that she is critically ill in the real world is like a string of weak life signals, penetrating the barrier between the two worlds. In order to return to her, in order to retrieve the proof of her daughter's existence, Lin Xi must fight against the laws of Honkai. He unexpectedly discovered that he could penetrate the code essence of the world - see the data flow, touch the loopholes in the rules, and even forcibly "tamper" with local reality. This "debugging eye" authority is the key to salvation, and it is also a fatal mark locked by the system and hunters.
In the "forgotten data center" filled with data storms, in the "dark forest" where fragments of consciousness are devouring each other, and in the territory of the fanatical cult trying to establish a new theocracy on the ruins, Lin Xi and a strange team composed of cynical hackers, soldiers with incomplete memories, and "doctors" with secrets embarked on a desperate expedition to find a "way back" in the data wreckage. Linxi
