What does it feel like to be thrown from a height of 8,000 meters?
The wind cuts like knives, the ground looks like the Grim Reaper, and during those 47 seconds of free fall, your mind will replay everything you regret most.
Like his little brother waiting for him to teach him programming. Like his little sister crying, "Big Brother, don't worry about me anymore."
One blow to the head and one mistake while hacking into an arms dealer's server led to a fatal fall. But Chen Mo didn't die. He landed in E Star's forbidden death zone: an area where gravity goes haywire.
Gravity reverses at random every fifteen minutes, trash heaps form black walls, and mutated lizards crawl through the ruins. According to the government map, the survival rate in this area is 3%.
Chen Mo survived.
Not by luck, but thanks to the one thing he's good at: hacking into any electronic device. No network in the restricted zone? He digs discarded chips out of the trash and builds his own system. Assassins come after him? He uses the shifting gravity to set traps, turning their exoskeletons into coffins.
But survival is only the beginning.
The Nine-Headed Bird organization, which wants him dead, hasn't given up. And his family, his artistic prodigy of a little sister, his athlete brother who idolizes him, his doctor mother, and his quiet architect father, have all been targeted.
A shut-in, socially awkward, 180-kilo fat guy whose palms sweat and whose face flushes to the tips of his ears when he's nervous has to survive in this death zone and hack an underground arms empire spanning two stars.
Sounds like a joke?
Three months later, the Nine-Headed Bird's systems have been completely crippled, and its CEO receives a message:
"You come after my family, I'll hack your whole family. This started at 8,000 meters. We'll settle the score, slowly."
