On the Ghost Festival, the world's largest VR game, "Fengshen", awakened. Spiritual energy flooded the world, and dungeons became reality: the powers players gained in the game could be brought back to the real world.
Billions of players around the globe went wild.
Governments, top guilds, and corporate giants all joined the fray, vying for 365 divine seats. A cataclysmic battle to become gods, one that would engulf all of humanity, had begun.
Lin Yuan, one of the game's lead designers, gained a special pair of eyes on the day of the awakening:
The Fortune System.
He could see the fortune value and color above every person's head. White meant cannon fodder, gold meant a child of destiny, and his task was to seize their fortune.
He laid plans to steal fate, forged binding contracts, and killed to claim fortune.
Others conquered the world with their fists. He did it with his wits.
"Who do you think designed all those hidden bosses in the dungeons?"
The problem was, some things hadn't even been designed by him, the game's own planner.
The game was evolving on its own. NPCs had gained genuine free will, and the truth behind the world of Fengshen was far more terrifying than anyone could imagine.
And his identity as a game designer was a time bomb, ready to go off at any moment.
