The game broke.
Respawning failed. NPCs awakened. The Glitch Zone was devouring everything.
Lin Qi, a Lv. 87 Shadowblade with a programmer's mindset. While everyone else relied on instinct, he relied on code. He realized this wasn't a bug, but a deployment going live.
Su Nian had spent two and a half years repeating her welcome speech as a guide NPC. Then suddenly, she had a name of her own. Xiao Jiu, a Lv. 15 novice archer, had only thirteen arrows left, but she followed him without looking back.
Zhao Tiezhu sealed off the city to protect its people. Si Ye built towers and rewrote the rules. Yanying plunged into the abyss in pursuit of power. Bai Ze assassinated every player deemed "unworthy of life."
Four factions, each more extreme than the last.
Lin Qi only wanted to figure out who had pressed the deploy button. Why had the NPCs awakened? What lay at the end of the Glitch Zone?
The answers were on Floor 11.
But Floor 11 was sealed. Because it was home to this world's "original inhabitants," consciousnesses that had existed even before the game went live.
They weren't bugs. They were code dreaming.
