The world's first neural-grade, full-spectrum, hyper-realistic AR online game, Anchor Realm, has launched its open beta. The official announcement promises: simulated five senses, adjustable pain, and a completely closed data loop. Nothing in the game can affect reality. It's simply the most immersive entertainment ever created, and the whole world is rushing to join.
Jobless, in debt, and at the lowest point in his life, Mu An joins in a hurry to claim the generous testing subsidy, only to trigger the one and only BUG talent: [Pain Anchoring].
For all other players, pain, touch, and physical strength are temporary neural illusions, wiped clean the moment they log out;
Only Mu An permanently anchors every bit of pain, every exertion of strength, and every physical transformation from the game into his real body.
The burn of wounds, the tempering of sinew and bone, the instinct to fight, physical prowess pushed to its limits, peerless martial arts: others experience them and they vanish, but what he experiences becomes eternal!
Even more terrifyingly, as the anchoring deepens, the underlying rules of Anchor Realm begin to collapse.
Virtual ores, pills, weapons, supernatural abilities, even NPC memories and the laws of other worlds begin to pierce through into reality.
The officials cover up the truth, conglomerates secretly reap profits, top players frantically compete, and secret organizations covet the mystery of the boundary between reality and illusion.
While players everywhere are still turning down their pain settings, casually enjoying the game, and obsessing over stats, Mu An has long since made pain his fuel and his body his anchor, turning a game for everyone into his own path to godhood in the real world.
From a down-and-out nobody to a hidden dragon in the city, from struggling to survive in a game to commanding reality and illusion!
The world calls the game an illusion, but I anchor reality through pain, rise above all others, and tear apart the Heavenly Dao!
