I Am Not a Variable

Shen Ye, a doctor of applied mathematics, died suddenly after working continuously in the laboratory for 72 hours. When he woke up, he was lying in the service room of a cultivating immortal sect - his spiritual roots were ruined, his five elements were mixed and impure, and he had just been kicked three times by his senior brother yesterday. He thought he had just traveled through time. Until he was beaten to death. Then he woke up. Same day. Same room. The same old man who cooked rice said, "Today's spiritual rice porridge was good" - even the pause in his tone was the same. Not resurrection. It's a rollback. After death, he returns to the day he traveled back in time, carrying all his memories with him. Shen Ye's first reaction was not fear - it was the experimental design. He began to use repeated deaths to collect data, test the rules of the world, and find all the optimal paths. Every death is an experiment, and every return brings him closer to the underlying code of the world. Until he saw something in the dark that shouldn't be there - glowing symbols. It's the same structure as the game model he's been pushing in his lab for six years. This world of cultivating immortals is a running system. He is not a time traveler, not a chosen one. He is the variable that is put in. A parameter used to test the boundaries of the system. One day, the data value of parameters will be exhausted. All reincarnations will be formatted by the system. Unless——he first understands the source code of the system.