After the Server Died, the Monsters Learned My Name

Li Jun was an underpaid game tester, not a hero. On the night his studio's online game shuts down, its monsters spill into the real city, bringing broken collision rules, impossible physics, and lethal boss mechanics with them. Li Jun knows something no soldier does: every monster follows a reproducible software bug, and he wrote the reports that explain them. With a bus driver, a former developer, and a neighborhood of survivors, he turns old test cases into survival plans. But every successful exploit leaves a permanent anomaly in reality. Worse, the company preparing a final patch may be willing to erase entire districts to fix its mistake. How do you save a world that was never supposed to be deployed?