The world's number-one full-immersion game, Ruins of the Gods, suddenly announced it was shutting down permanently.
Seven days later, all character data would be permanently deleted.
Lin Yuan, a player who specialized in digging into old versions, received an email before the shutdown from his brother, who had been missing for seven years:
“Don't trust the shutdown time.”
“Delete your character before the servers go down.”
When the countdown hit zero ahead of schedule, billions of players were forcibly logged out. Lin Yuan, however, logged into a test account that didn't exist on any server: the Archivist.
The game world descended upon reality. Monsters ran rampant, and death was permanent. Everyone inherited the classes and gear from the final version, but Lin Yuan alone unlocked the “Version Recycle Bin,” which let him load skills, items, maps, and rules that the developers had deleted long ago.
When max-level players found themselves powerless against the World Boss, Lin Yuan drew a beginner's wooden bow with an attack rating of just one, deleted nine years earlier.
Because only he knew that in the very first test version, the so-called world-destroying Demon God was nothing more than a cave-dwelling creature afraid of the light.
But as one abandoned version after another resurfaced, Lin Yuan gradually discovered that the NPCs players had killed over and over all had real memories.
And Ruins of the Gods was never a game.
The real world was just an old version about to be deleted.
It's so unbelievable that there is no way to survive at all. If there is no protagonist in the first boss, the group will be destroyed. Moreover, the location of the first boss in the protagonist's location can be interpreted as bad luck. The subsequent dungeons are also in this place. Is this the only place in the world?