Bottom of the River and Mountains: Article Zero

What if everything in the Three Kingdoms - fire attacks, celestial phenomena, life and death - is just a running code? Lin Yi traveled to the eve of Red Cliff and gained a pair of eyes that can see through the underlying structure of all things. He discovered that this world is not real - Qi numbers are computing power, rules are algorithms, and nodes scattered all over the world form a huge computing network. Zhou Yu's fire attack was a system-level permission call. Zhuge Liang holds the administrator key. Guan Yu's sword skills are sorting out the longitude and latitude of the world. But they themselves know nothing. Lin Yi is the only one who can see through all this. But every time he saw a clear layer, he was one step further away from the "person" - the gray-blue lines on his wrist were spreading, making him a part of the system inch by inch. He must choose between truth and humanity. In this virtual civilization that is slowly shutting down, what does "alive" mean?