Global Copying, Forced Reading of Files After Death

Global synchronized copies have arrived, turning office buildings into death mazes. There are piercing tentacles hidden in the ceiling of the tea room, bone-corrosive black liquid flows in the fire escape, and every mirror surface is breeding a strange humanoid shape exactly like you. Outsourced programmer Lin Ye unexpectedly unlocked a unique ability: death in the dungeon forced file loading to trace back to the starting point. Memory retention. Personal belongings retained. He was the only one who remembered what had just happened. Everyone has only one chance to survive. Only he can risk death repeatedly, measure the attack range of monsters, calculate the safe period of passages, and compile a complete copy of the strategy using sticky notes. But reading files is not a free gift. Every time you go back, you accumulate a price called "cognition" - persistent auditory hallucinations, trembling fingertips, and scars that cannot be repaired when loading files. The copy consciousness is observing him, learning from him, and copying him. In the mirror where he was first born on the 32nd floor, his clone had already lost its disguise and was waiting for him. The more often he dies, the more hostile the world becomes to him. When the awareness approached the critical point, the memory began to fragment, and the file-reading mechanism was on the verge of failure. Lin Ye gradually discovered that the copy was not a natural disaster, but a cruel selection from an unknown civilization outside the territory. His goal is no longer to clear the copy. He wants to completely shut down this screening system that was put on the earth and enslaved mankind. Countless deaths are never a shortcut. It is the only bargaining chip to break the rules.