Virtual Reality

80,000 Yuan in debt and desperate. Jiang Yan saw an advertisement on a telephone pole - an extreme experiment on the human body, with a reward of one million. He signed it. Five underground floors, thirty-six experimental bodies. High pressure, low temperature, and the "cognitive infusion" of five thousand years of human civilization are forced into the brain. Twenty-six died in one month. Jiang Yan survived. But the birthmark on his left hand that had been there since childhood began to change—bronze-colored lines spread along the blood vessels and grew toward the heart, with dark red light flowing underneath the lines, like the embers of a charcoal fire that was about to die out. Then he heard a voice during the experiment, so weak that it was intermittent: "Live... Don't die..." He didn't know what it was. But he knew that the project leader said something - "If our inference is correct, our five-thousand-year civilization, including the entire universe, essentially does not exist." And the world leaders have staked the fate of all mankind on this secret. What is awakening in his body may be the only key to get through that door - or it may be the cause of death.