WORLD "A"

What if nearly 70% of the people you pass on the street aren't actually real?

Inside the cold, high-tech corridors of X-Play Corporation, senior auditor Aayla Raji isn't just tracking financial data-she is hunting the raw code of reality itself. Operating under a decree of absolute sovereignty known as Protocol 144, Aayla possesses a secret weapon: the Omni Connection, a direct vertical alignment that allows her to see through the artificial veil of the corporate Matrix.

To the world, she is just an elite analyst. To the Simulator, she is the ultimate glitch.

When she breaks through the defense shields of Ethan, the holding's brilliant and fiercely protective Security Director, their intense connection sparks a dangerous alliance. Together, they begin to unravel a horrifying corporate architecture:

• The NPC Factory: A massive demographic operation where 68.4% of the global population are printed biological avatars running pre-programmed scripts.
• The Exile Protocol: A dark rejuvenation rule where the global elite trade their histories and pasts for a software upgrade of artificial youth.
• The Subsolo Rooms: Deep underground vaults hiding the physical answers to the simulated world.

But when their infiltration leads them into the depths of Basement Two, the investigation turns into a nightmare of cosmic proportions. Staring into a bioelectric plasma chamber, Ethan faces the ultimate corporate firewall: an identical clone of himself, fully wired and waiting to replace him the exact second his original consciousness steps out of line.

With an autonomous system reboot counting down and the board of directors closing in, the illusion of the three-dimensional world is about to shatter. There are no more audits, no more data packets, and no turning back.

The war for the control of human souls has just begun. Will you follow the script, or will you activate your Origin Consciousness?