Lin Zhi, the product manager of a major Internet company, died suddenly after staying up late to modify the 27th version of the requirements document - he woke up and was bound to the "Ghost Talk Live Broadcasting System".
The system told her: This is the "Universe of Monster Stories", which is composed of countless rules-based ghost stories. She must enter the dungeon and complete tasks to gain points, otherwise she will be wiped out.
The first task: "Don't look under the bed at midnight" "Please pretend to be asleep when you hear footsteps" "Don't pick up the red embroidered shoes on the ground".
Lin Zhi stared at the task panel and felt an occupational disease: "The rules don't say not to seal the bottom of the bed, lock the door, let alone burn the embroidered shoes."
So - other players were trembling in the ghost stories, Lin Zhi was sealing off the bottom of the bed, dismantling mirrors, and renovating the haunted house; other players were trying their best to escape, and Lin Zhi was doing "rules science" for the ghosts; while other players were struggling to get more than a thousand points, Lin Zhi turned the horror live broadcast into an infrastructure variety show, ranking first on the popularity list.
The barrage area exploded: "Anchor, are you here for vacation?" "The devil has been persuaded to work on infrastructure!"
But as Lin Zhi continues to break the rules, she discovers that behind the world of ghost talk is the shocking secret of the "consciousness cage", and every "bug exploit" she makes shakes the foundation of the world. The scariest thing was that she saw her own name on the gray wall at the edge of the ghost story.
Sweetness + imagination + micro-terror + infrastructure, a counterattack that turns horror into carnival...
Intention: Rules are never born this way, but are written by some kind of power. Lin Zhi uses the "bug-finding" instinct of a product manager to dismantle the rules of the weird world. The essence is to question all "natural" power structures - when the rules are unreasonable, obeying them is the greatest absurdity.
The core question of the novel is: when the system tells you "it must be so", do you have the courage to try "it may not be so"?
From "forced to survive" to "active transformation" to "subverting the system", Lin Zhi's growth path implies an affirmation of individual initiative - no matter how huge the system is, it is written in code, and the code will always have loopholes. Those behaviors that are judged as "violations" may be the only path to the truth.
Find cracks in the rules and build a home amidst terror.