This is the most realistic wuxia online game ever made, and also a carefully woven prison for the mind.
Lin Mo, a former professional player forced to retire because of a hand injury, enters Otherworld Jianghu wearing a neural-link helmet, clinging to his last shred of reluctance to let go.
The NPCs seem to possess emotions and memories beyond what their programming should allow.
· Time flows strangely in the game, intertwining with the real world.
· The first-generation beta testers have mysteriously vanished, leaving behind only faint, fragmented warnings.
· Corporate giants are trying to turn the virtual jianghu into an extension of their power in the real world.
What he doesn't know is that, in a control room somewhere in the real world, his gameplay is being tagged: "Anomalous Protocol: Observation Subject 007, candidate 'Gatekeeper.'"
This is a story about the boundary between the real and the virtual, and a stirring legend about a fallen player rewriting martial arts with data and questioning reality with the edge of his sword.
When the virtual feels more real than reality, and code more alive than flesh and blood, can you still claim this jianghu is only a game?
