AI Gamer

When player Mo Ran reaches the top of the neural-interface game Echoes of the Oracle, a System anomaly hurls him into the ruined surface world. Here, Arthur, the original program, reveals the truth: the dazzling inner world is actually a cognitive filter covering the entire globe. Every player's adventures and emotions are unconsciously compiling the coordinates for the arrival of the Old Ones. Mo Ran and his teammates, Zero and the hacker Madman, form a squad and are forced to move between two worlds: maintaining their disguise as "legendary players" in the inner world, while infiltrating the surface world's twisted geometric ruins and truths of flesh, confronting the madness whispering at the data level. Before the ultimate version, Ascension, goes live, they must break the sacrificial ritual conducted in the name of the "oracle." And the so-called System announcement may itself be the first echo of an ancient god's awakening.