Upscale Residential Area Ahead: No Impostors Allowed

On a late autumn night, Lin Hao is forcibly dropped off by Gatekeeper No. 7 at the guard booth by the north gate of Yunqi International. An ordinary wage earner, he becomes a night watchman who must identify "impostors" and stop them from entering the residential compound. He opens a blind box of night-shift supplies and obtains the key item, "data-detecting glasses." On his very first night, he sees through an impostor disguised as a female homeowner, confirming with his own eyes that this upscale compound is no ordinary residential area, but a high-risk trial ground rife with identity swaps, incomplete rules, and faulty surveillance. As the north gate's glass is repeatedly smashed, missing pages of the duty manual are filled in, the resident list reveals irregularities, and property manager Chen Qiming repeatedly uses procedure to shut down concerns, Lin Hao gradually develops his own system for judging who can pass through the gates: the glasses' readings, behavioral logic, fragments of the rules, and traces at the scene must all line up before he can tell friend from foe. Luo Mi is drawn into the ordeal, becoming the first person to handle anomalies alongside Lin Hao. By the end of the volume, Lin Hao has survived a string of high-risk night shifts and held the north gate. He realizes he wasn't simply dumped there to die. He has been dropped into a hellish scenario where the "newbie village is also where the final boss spawns from the start."