In a narrow alley during a late-night delivery, as space tears apart, Lin Yan thinks he is about to vanish completely, like dough being crushed, right outside his mother's fried chicken shop.
He's a poor kid on the verge of dropping out of his final year of high school. Caring for his frail mother and keeping their struggling shop afloat are his entire life. But when he is on the brink of death, he is dragged into a demonic game called “Survival.”
A status panel appears. Every increase in strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence comes at a bloody price. Behind those 1,000 points lie freedom from the game, the evolution of a dark race, or... an even tighter set of shackles?
He thinks he can go home once he clears the deadly trials, but he doesn't know that reality has already laid a vast trap. The holy knights of the Church of Sacred Judgment wield holy silver weapons and regard all players as “imperfect sacrifices.” Wherever their divine power reaches, every ability granted by demons becomes useless.
Lin Yan has no overwhelming combat power, only the attention to detail and grit he developed working at the fried chicken shop. His “imperfectly kind” heart is constantly torn by life-and-death choices: he won't hurt others first, but he will never let himself be slaughtered either.
In the game, he must guard against teammates' betrayal and System bugs. In the real world, he must evade the church's pursuit and conceal his tracks. Behind him are his mother's guilt and hopes, hidden in the wrinkles of her face. Before him is the double assault of sacred judgment and demons.
The fried chicken recipe card in his pocket grows hot in his clenched fist. Suddenly, he understands: this game was never a matter of choosing between options. It is a fight to survive.
“I have to make it back alive, not just for Mom, but to tear this damn fate to pieces.”
Beneath sacred judgment, the sacrifice whispers. In the narrow space between holiness and evil, a boy with nothing but an ordinary human body searches for a way to survive.
