Four billion people worldwide were forced to log in to War Era, while 1.5 billion viewers paid to watch.
They thought it was a VR game. In truth, it was a live-streamed slaughterhouse.
The retired sniper Tianlang discovered that every cent viewers tipped turned into a bullet aimed at the players, and that votes in the live chat could decide who died.
To stay alive, he had to fight back against the hunters while turning the live stream into his own weapon.
But when he fought his way through the killing ground, he discovered that the game had three layers...
And the platform would rather die than let viewers see the third.