The ordinary night of Lin Ye, a sophomore, was completely shattered by a mechanical sound - he was forcibly bound to the "rift system" and became player number 739. He was involved in a death game starting from the "Seven Days of Campus Escape": failure means "obliteration", modified NPCs hide fatal attacks, and every step in the closed space is on the line of life and death.
In a desperate situation, Lin Ye relied on his keen observation to awaken his "emotional perception" talent, which can capture the emotional flaws of NPCs before they attack; he temporarily formed an alliance with Su Xiao, a cold programming genius, and Zhao Lei, a hot-blooded sports student. The three of them started from the cafeteria frightening, exploring clues in the library, and groping for the rules of clearance under the threat of "obliteration". As the level progresses, they decipher the clues of the "early experimental site" from the memory maze of the Scarlet Hospital, encounter the mysterious force "Zero Degree Organization" that controls the game in the data cage of the Cyber City, and meet the silent master of hidden weapons Chen in the fateful chess game of the ancient world. Mo, in the resource competition on the desert island, he accepted the healing medical student Li Yao. The five people formed the "Dawn Team" with a clear division of labor: Lin Ye commanded and predicted, Su Xiao cracked the technology, Zhao Lei faced the enemy head-on, Chen Mo investigated and sneaked, and Li Yao repaired the injury, becoming the glimmer of light in the desperate situation.
However, the "rift game" is far from a simple level-breaking - the Zero Degree organization uses the game as a guise to select people with special physiques as experimental materials. Su Xiao's brother was transformed into an unconscious NPC. Chen Mo was actually an experimental subject who escaped from Zero Degree. Lin Ye even discovered that his father, who had been missing for many years, was actually the first generation researcher of Zero Degree! The truth tears through the veil of warmth, and the team shifts from "clearing the level for survival" to "resisting for freedom":
