In 2095, the brain-computer game "Doomsday Mirror" opened for deep access, but player Shi Zongze encountered an abnormality when his consciousness was loaded to 97%. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the game world had been completely materialized: there were no health bars, resurrections, and quick manufacturing. Wounds, hunger, infection, and death all existed, but the real body was still locked in the access device.
Shi Zongze met Gu Linchuan, Lin Manyue, Shen Qingye, Chen Mo and other players in Yuwan Satellite City. They started by searching for food, medicine and vehicles, and continued to move between the infected, the tide of corpses, bad weather and the forces of survivors. They established the survival organization "Stubborn Stone" in the Bei Canal Maintenance Center, and gradually established water sources, food, weapons, medical care, isolation and labor systems.
At the same time, ownerless bodies, lost players and wrong identities continue to appear. A consciousness calling itself "Zero" borrows the name of others to enter the world, and the identity correction program hidden underneath also begins to interfere with players. As the stubborn stone experiences base relocation, resource competition, industrial recovery and a large zombie wave, everyone gradually comes into contact with the Broken Flag Army, independent settlements and the forces of the Old Guard Alliance, and uncovers the history behind the Six-City Ring Road, the Qiongheng Climate Network and the five major environmental areas.
In the end, they discovered that "Consciousness Zero" was not only a brain-machine neural mapping autonomous worm, but also a new consciousness bred from countless human memory fragments. This world is no longer just a game, and they must decide who they really are between returning to reality, staying permanently, or delaying the choice.
