In 2030, on the day the world’s first brain-computer game, God’s Domain, opened its public beta, the neural pathways of thirty million players were permanently locked. A server-wide announcement declared: only the person who ascends the one and only throne can log out alive. Chen Ji, a retired firefighter, touched the neural interface at the back of his neck and realized he hadn’t been locked in. A system notification flashed and vanished: Unknown brain region detected. Loading administrator privileges. He could rewrite the rules. He could foresee the future. He could freeze a monster’s data stream for half a second. But every time he used his privileges, his neural data became a little more corrupted. His left pinky turned transparent, his arm dissolved into data static, and the voices of the dead began echoing in his ears. The map had 99 floors, with a gatekeeper every ten floors. Each one was a copy created from the data of a dead player. The gatekeeper on the 50th floor was a surviving fragment of his younger sister’s consciousness. “Big brother... don’t go on... don’t go on...”
And all of this was only the tip of the iceberg in ShenYu Technology CEO Lu Chenzhou’s mad plan to use thirty million brains to resurrect his dead wife. From ordinary player to sole candidate for the throne, Chen Ji had to rewrite not just a game, but the fate of thirty million people...
