During graduation season at eighteen, Shen Xingyao is forcibly pulled into the “Starbound Escape Arena” at a subway station. It is a global game where lives are the stakes, and failure means being erased from existence. Without a golden finger, she relies solely on her cool head and keen powers of observation to lead a group of strangers through the beginner stage alive. She uncovers the truth behind the resentment haunting an abandoned high school, unlocks the special ability of “Astral Trajectory Deduction” at an undersea research station, and later confronts the secrets of the star core behind the game in an ancient desert city.
On her solo journey through the stages, she encounters an obsessive researcher and a girl trapped by resentment, and faces the spying eyes of an alien civilization. Every instance is a deadly contest, and every time she clears one, she draws closer to the ultimate truth behind the game. As the rules of Earth are rewritten and humanity becomes a test subject for an alien civilization, Shen Xingyao grips her craft knife and, with nothing but an ordinary human body, carves out her own path among the escape arenas of this infinite world.
