The Strange Game

Twelve years ago, a global mental competition called “Tianyan” came to an abrupt halt. All the contestants lost their memories, and the only known champion, “Zero,” vanished without a trace.

Twelve years later, Lu Chen, a down-and-out mathematical prodigy, receives a black envelope containing a set of equations he has never seen before, yet written in his own handwriting. The equations point to the location of a new competition.

He is forced into “Devious Game”: a battle of wits with no rules, no limits, and life or death on the line. Each round is a seemingly unsolvable logic puzzle, and his opponents include a psychological authority, a cryptography prodigy, a memory manipulator, and an AI that predicts behavior...

Win, and he regains a sealed memory. Lose, and his brain is permanently formatted.

Lu Chen soon discovers that every opponent's ultimate goal points to the same missing person: Zero.

And he himself may be a “counterattack piece” set up by Zero.