The Firmament: Illusory Observation

Former esports champion Chen Mo has a crippled right hand and crushing debts. Using a helmet left behind by his father, he enters the virtual interstellar world of The Firmament and binds himself to the only damaged template: [Civilization Observer]. A deadly backlash between virtuality and reality threatens him; every time he solves a mystery in the game, his real body suffers irreversible decay. The System hunts him, multiple factions close in to kill him, and even his biological father has sentenced him to death. With a broken body, he defies fate and uses his wits to shatter the illusions of an ever-changing world!