The Surreal Game: Jiang Yang, Rookie Player

Jiang Hong said people would disappear while walking along the road at night. Jiang Yang cursed and said they’d fallen into a sewer. The next second, he was inside a kill-or-be-killed game. Ruined-city corpse hounds, wall-climbing leaps, steel-rebar javelins. A Lv. 1 rating: “Using an iron rod to blow open a corpse hound’s mouth is shameful.” When the countdown returned him to his real-world anchor point, he carried a corpse-hound hide back to his rental and dissected it. In this Infinite Flow, you don’t survive by leveling up. You survive through reverse engineering.