Death in a Dream

Baishi attends a bonfire party hosted by strangers. A young woman, Song Shiwen, tells the others that the previous night she dreamed of a man being murdered by two people dressed in black, with a strange bystander also appearing in the dream. When chaos breaks out at the party, the heroine realizes that the bystander is Baishi.

After the party, everyone returns to the hotel and discovers that the emergency exit resembles the murder scene in the dream. They then find a corpse in the passageway. The victim looks exactly like the man Song Shiwen saw in her dream.

Song Shiwen and Baishi are then hunted by a mysterious organization, but they escape with help from a stranger named Bahang.

As they investigate, Baishi and Song Shiwen discover that the victim from the dream was a computer scientist. They then learn that computer scientists in countries around the world have been dying under mysterious circumstances in recent years. They also find that more than one person online has claimed to dream about a murder before later dying or disappearing.

Bahang then admits that the victim was his teacher. More than a decade earlier, his teacher had worked on a project called Gamma, which aimed to build a virtual world but never came to fruition. Like many other scientists at the time, his teacher began to suspect that the world they lived in was itself virtual. The scientists were then hunted down by a mysterious organization.

The three go on to endure a series of bizarre encounters and begin their struggle against the mysterious organization and the real world behind it...