In 2147, the holographic immersive game "Star Road" became popular all over the world. The virtual world, which was claimed to be "absolutely safe", suddenly experienced strange changes three years after its public beta. A batch of hidden dungeons marked "SSS-level secrets" were quietly launched. Players who entered the dungeons all survived, and in reality, all cases ended with "accidental death."
Ling Jin, a former professional e-sports player, forced his way into "Star Road" in order to trace the whereabouts of his mentor who had been missing for three years. As soon as she entered the game, she was involved in the first fatal dungeon, the "Faceless Corridor." She witnessed with her own eyes that the player was torn apart by the code in the virtual world due to a failed crack, and stopped breathing simultaneously in the real world.
Copy rules are nested layer by layer, and clues are hidden in the gaps in the code and the abyss of human nature. Teammates may betray for profit, or kill each other out of fear. Even the game system seems to have self-awareness, constantly changing the rules to set up dead ends. Ling Jin relied on his top logical deduction ability and keen intuition of codes to repeatedly jump on the edge of life and death, breaking one fatal trap after another.
As she went deeper, she discovered that the scenes and NPCs in the dungeon were highly overlapped with many unsolved cases many years ago, and the disappearance of her mentor seemed to be related to the mysterious organization behind the game. The boundaries between virtuality and reality are gradually blurring, and death is no longer the end, but the beginning of a deeper conspiracy. Ling Jin must crack all the copies and at the same time fight against the black hands hidden behind the codes to uncover the ultimate truth of this "deadly game".
