When daily life begins to seep into murder, a group of people on the edge of the city receive an invitation from the "Creed of Survival". Behind the high rewards are gradually escalating death missions - from taking photos of ruins in the early morning to a survival competition of hunting throughout the city. This is not an escape in a closed space, but a hunt that penetrates into subways, office buildings, and cafes. There is no escape, because the hunting ground is the city where they live.
Yu Zichen, a calm and sharp workplace controller, has maintained a relationship of dominance and belonging with her loyal surrender Fang Fang (named "Laifu") for two years. This connection based on absolute trust and contract has become the only anchor point in the chaos. Involved with them are Zhang Hao, who violently collects money but has a soft spot, Financial Sister Wang, who falsified accounts to raise a son, Zhao Ming, a programmer who has a past as a hacker, and Lao Li, a chef who has retired from the world... Everyone has a bad past hidden, and everyone has become the target of correction by the system.
In this cruel game in the name of "social atonement," they must use their respective skills to survive: psychological manipulation, fighting skills, hacking skills, and worldly wisdom. When the mission escalates from a financial test to a human decision, the fragile alliance is reorganized amid betrayal. The master-slave bond between Yu Zichen and Laifu was tempered and deepened in blood and fire, evolving from a cold contract to a symbiosis of life and death.
But the biggest suspense quietly emerges: Who created the system? Is there a larger experiment hidden behind the so-called "correction"? When the survivors thought they had broken free from the cage, they discovered that they had never left the surveillance sight.
This is a modern hunt without a desert island, a survival trial that tests the bottom line of human nature.
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The origin is that I want to code a story based on a small group of relationships fighting side by side and deepening the relationship when facing challenges. As the story deepens, elements such as symbolic marks, pain and belonging are integrated one by one.
This is a dark fairy tale about pain, control and choice. It does not try to beautify a certain niche relationship, nor does it try to criticize the weaknesses of human nature, but shows how people defend themselves in extreme circumstances, even in deformed ways.
The essence of "being alive". The ending is not happiness, but peace; not victory, but coexistence; not an end, but an echo.
Today is my anniversary with my master, and the feeling and understanding of the relationship in the book has a basis in reality.
The origin is that I want to code a story based on a small group of relationships fighting side by side and deepening the relationship when facing challenges. As the story deepens, elements such as symbolic marks, pain and belonging are integrated one by one. This is a dark fairy tale about pain, control and choice. It does not try to beautify a certain niche relationship, nor does it try to criticize the weaknesses of human nature, but shows how people defend themselves in extreme circumstances, even in deformed ways. The essence of "being alive". The ending is not happiness, but peace; not victory, but coexistence; not an end, but an echo. Today is my anniversary with my master, and the feeling and understanding of the relationship in the book has a basis in reality.