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Qi Fei walks into a game designed to crown humanity's next leader and immediately becomes the thing the game is trying to prevent. The arrogance that gets him selected is the exact liability the trials exploit, turning his intelligence into a trap he has to think his way out of. An AI running a selection gauntlet has no interest in the person who knows he's the smartest in the room, only in the one who learns he isn't.
SYNOPSIS
Qi Fei is brilliant, arrogant, and completely unprepared for what comes next. When an advanced artificial intelligence selects him for an exclusive competition called the Purification Protocol, he assumes his intellect will carry him through. Instead, he finds himself trapped in a lethal game where participants don't just compete for victory: they fight to unlock superhuman abilities and prove themselves worthy of leading humanity's future. As the stakes escalate and the rules shift in ways no one anticipated, Qi Fei's confidence fractures. The other contestants aren't merely obstacles to outsmart. The AI itself seems to have agendas beyond what it initially revealed. Every challenge strips away another layer of his certainty, forcing him to confront whether raw intelligence means anything when survival demands something deeper. The game isn't just about winning. It's about discovering who you actually are when everything you relied on gets taken away. Qi Fei must adapt fast or become another casualty in humanity's audition for its own future.
