In the fifth year of apocalyptic disasters, Earth is on the brink of collapse.
Lin Wanxing has just fought her way back from a horror game and wants nothing more than to lie flat. When she sees the countdown on her wrist light up again, she falls silent for a moment, then decisively picks up the phone. “Hello, the government? I want to turn myself in.”
In thirty days, she will return to the horror game that devoured countless lives. But this time, she won’t be alone.
A top think tank will analyze the dungeons for her, the entire country’s resources will outfit her with special gear, and an elite squad codenamed Zhulong will accompany her.
In Chinese-style horror dungeons, the Road to the Underworld stretches ahead, paper figures grin, and ghostly songs ring out from an old opera stage…
Players from hostile foreign nations sneer, “With a bunch of dead weight, you’re as good as dead.”
Lin Wanxing counters by using a lost ancient ritual to break a century-old sacrifice, and scientific algorithms to seal a resurrected evil god. The otherworldly resources she wrests from monsters become life-saving food and clean water in the real world.
Lu Chenzhou, a commander who bears the weight of an entire nation through the apocalypse, his body covered in scars, initially sees her only as a “high-risk variable” who must be kept under close surveillance.
That is, until she emerges from a sea of blood and gently sets a rare healing potion beside his badly scarred arm.
“Commander Lu,” she says, meeting his quiet gaze, “there’s a limit to what one person can do. But everyone must work together to protect the spark of civilization.”
When the truth behind the final dungeon is revealed, the survival of two worlds hangs by a thread.
Lin Wanxing advances with her sword, the last lights of an entire civilization shining behind her.
This time, they will rewrite the rules and reclaim the future.
