The Rebooter of the Virtual Realm

When Lu Ran discovered that what beat in his chest was not a heart but ghostly blue code, the 72-hour death countdown on his retina had already reset 17,491 times. He crushed the skull of his own clone beneath his foot, bargained with the conceptual Grim Reaper in a collapsing Klein bottle space, and finally saw the true nature of the world: what people called reality was nothing more than a sandbox system running on a pile of bugs.

Liquid nitrogen soaked seven godslayer keys in an underwater data center. A planet of brain tissue drifted in the stratosphere, incubating a cognitive virus. A hundred thousand battered versions of himself were imprisoned at the top of the Tower of Babel. Every death was an experimental parameter for a higher-dimensional being, and every cycle tampered with the original code in his memories.

"If the System built the world with bugs..." Lu Ran tore the data chains driven into his spine. Liquid metal gathered in his palm, forming a godslaying spear. "Then I'll become the deadliest flaw."

In this apocalyptic feast where code and flesh coexist, the most dangerous virus is learning how to kill its creator…