Chapter One: The Silent Meteor Shower

His contacts flashed. A nameless number deleted itself. Echo was silent for a long time. Then, for the first time, it typed slowly. 【Losers do not die.】 【They are revoked.】 Hundreds of negative-numbered doors lit white at once. Behind every one came the vibration of a phone. Cheng Ye tightened his grip on the ownerless thermos. “Who is competing?” Echo's gray icon moved to the center of the empty home screen. 【Every phone.】 【And the prize has room for only one.】