Lin Feng is an ordinary office worker, working overtime day after day, cramming onto the subway, and paying rent. The biggest drama in his life is when his roommate forgets to take out the trash again. Then, late one night, an email full of garbled text appears in his inbox.
He opens it.
That is where everything changes.
In the morgue of an abandoned hospital, a corpse clutches a key. In the mirror of an ancient castle, a twisted face screams at him. On a gravestone in a desolate cemetery, there is a spell he must recite. Three locations, three trials. He clears all three, threading his way through death, and finally stands before the mastermind behind the game.
He wins.
But victory isn't the end. It's only the beginning.
After returning to reality, Lin Feng discovers a dark red mark of a closed eye on his neck. His body starts to change: his reflexes are far beyond normal, his night vision is extraordinarily sharp, and his hearing has grown several times more acute. Meanwhile, posts from other players who've cleared the game begin appearing on dark web forums. Stalkers lurk in the city's shadows, and the eye symbol on his neck starts appearing on strangers he doesn't recognize.
He thought he was a survivor who had escaped alive.
The truth is, he was just a pawn in a vast selection System.
The selection never stopped. Clearing the game only earned him a ticket into the real one. When the iron gates of an abandoned factory slam shut behind him, when a humanoid monster deep in a maze reveals the same closed-eye symbol, when his companions are swallowed by mutations one by one as they fight by his side, Lin Feng finally understands: this so-called “game” was never virtual.
The game is invading reality. Monsters are walking the streets...
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