Eleven-year-old boy Lin Yi fell into hysterical stupor in a home surrounded by waste. The scarlet word "Failure" on the mobile phone screen next to him became the prelude to a silent tragedy. Detective Zhang Wei took over the case and intuitively realized that this was not a simple game addiction, but a carefully planned and systematic spiritual murder.
The investigation was like peeling back layers of a cocoon, revealing a corner of the cold truth: the matching system of the "Glory" game is not a fair playing field, but a sophisticated machine with "user retention rate" and "payment rate" as its ultimate goals. It coldly categorizes players and makes the best use of them: Lin Yi, a left-behind child who longs to belong, is thrown into a cycle of "hope deprivation" and suffers a mental breakdown in an endless losing streak; Su Zhi, an emotionally stable single mother and nurse, is labeled as an "emotional sponge" by the system. Silently absorbing the negative experiences of other users until they are on the verge of exhaustion; the power leveling Ajie and his peers who are struggling at the bottom are "data abandoned people" and are used as "sandbags" to be matched to paying players for crushing and fun until their lives are completely drained. The creator of the core algorithm of the game - Honor Game Planning Consultant. In an internal meeting, he praised this system for manipulating user emotions as the art of "user demand management." Legal and conventional means are powerless in the face of that perfect "technologically neutral" report. In desperation, a tit-for-tat lynching trial "Abyss" hunting and being hunted plan was quietly launched
