Countdown in the Gun Barrel

Lin Ye is a well-known power leveler in "The Age of Guns". He barely managed to make ends meet by paying the rent by relying on his precise sniping, until the old lighter engraved with snake patterns lit up red - the empty magazine in the game suddenly appeared in reality, still stained with a sticky substance that looked like blood. What's even weirder is that an eighteen-hour countdown appears on the lighter, and the top expert "Red Snake" who has never met on the screen sends a private message, saying that he needs to find all seven magazines to survive. When the deaths of game characters began to leave scars in reality, and when the black shadows outside the rental house windows gradually overlapped with the enemies in the game, Lin Ye discovered that this gunfight game was no longer a virtual battlefield. Rising rent, unfinished graduation thesis, "bullets" that may crawl out of the screen at any time, and the Red Snake's phrase "They like to hide where the gunshots are the loudest"... The countdown was ticking, and Lin Ye tightened his grip on the mouse, but he didn't know whether he was pulling the trigger or the dividing valve between reality and virtuality. When the rules of the game become the laws of reality, he must find the truth amidst the hail of bullets - after all, this time, Game Over is really over.