When I was 8 years old, my family sold me to an entity called "The System" in exchange for my younger brother's health. They called me a "loser," and the price I was about to pay was my life - I was thrown into a battle royale of a hundred people, and only one of the hundred survived.
The killing fields devour innocence. I huddled at the bottom of the trap, with a dying boy beneath me. His name is Xu Si, he is third in the survivor rankings, he is covered in blood, but his eyes are as bright as burning stars. If I save him, he may die; if I don't save him, I will face this man-eating forest alone.
I chose to reach out.
From then on, the abandoned "disaster star" had a new name - Xu Nian'an. The cynical injured Xu Si became my shaky pillar. The poisonous-tongued young man Jiang Xun who joined later brought the vitality of laughter and scolding. The brothers and sisters Lin Wenfeng and Lin Jianyue we rescued made this "old, weak, sick and disabled" team even more absurd.
But the system wants more than just killing. Weird "focus marks" follow each other like a shadow. Under the ruins lies a laboratory for cultivating "candidates". The mysterious "key" attracts the covetousness and kidnapping of the "Black Mine Gang". We gradually discovered that there was a deeper filter behind this battle royale-the system was looking for specific "containers".
When Xu Si and Jiang Xun went to the depths of the ruins to explore the truth, those of us who stayed behind fell into a trap. In the cold mine, the black mine leader's questioning was cold to the bone. If I don't tell the whereabouts of the "key", my companions will be crushed in front of me; if I tell them, Xu Si and the others will surely die.
I wiped away the blood and tears on my face, and held the dagger left by Xu Si tightly in the darkness of despair.
This time, the 8-year-old "disaster" is no longer the protected one. I want to use these eyes that could only cry to see the rules clearly, use this life that was once called a "loser" to guard the only light in the darkness, and uncover the shocking truth about "inheritance" and "container" under the cold promise of the system.
This is a story about finding glimmers of light in absolute cruelty, establishing symbiosis in a world of betrayal, a group of scarred souls redeeming each other on the edge of destruction, and launching a rebellion against the system that controls destiny.
Intent: In the extreme darkness, the glimmer of humanity and unyielding resistance are not only for survival, but also to regain the right to define "what is alive", and to complete self-reshaping and redemption through mutual bonds.