Ten years ago, an urban legend called The Supernatural Game Pod began circulating in secret. They said that anyone who entered the game at midnight would gain the power to change their fate. But everyone who played died mysteriously within three days, and a secret organization sealed the game pods away in an underground archive.
Xie Linchuan, a psychology graduate student suffering from a delusion that everything he sees is stained red, accidentally activated an old, sealed game pod while going through the belongings of his late advisor. The moment he put on the helmet, a prompt sounded: "S-rank mental strength Host detected. Will you accept the highest-difficulty trial?"
He smiled. As a terminally ill patient whom doctors had judged unlikely to live past twenty-five, death would be a release. What he didn't know was that the game pod was backed by an organization of controllers. They used the game to screen and train new members, and the players who had "died" ten years ago were now the organization's core members.
As Xie Linchuan used his pathological calm and meticulous reasoning to solve one supernatural puzzle after another, the controllers began to panic. They realized that this seemingly fragile young man was using his own unique methods to trace the game's source code back to them.
