456 marginalized people in South Korea who were swept out of society due to personal reasons such as crime, greed, decadence, and gambling were suddenly desperation and invited to participate in a survival game by a mysterious organization with huge bonuses as bait.The games involved are children's games from the 1970s to the 1980s, including “123 Wooden Man”, “Sugar Pie Picking”, “Tug of War”, “Playing Marbles”, “Walking on the Glass Bridge” and “Squid Game”.

But underneath the appearance of a childhood game, it is essentially a game of survival.The location of this survival game is unknown, and the participants will be locked in the game location-“Battle Royale” secret room until the final winner is born.

Although the ultimate prize is as high as 45.6 billion won, the cost of getting the prize and getting out of the secret room is the lives of the remaining 455 people.

Deep in the city, under the dim lights of the subway, Cheng Qixun, a penniless man due to his addiction to gambling, is falling into the abyss of despair.His life seemed to have been swallowed up by endless darkness. However, in this seemingly endless tunnel, he met an elite man in a suit and tie.

The elite man handed Cheng Qixun a business card, leading him into a mysterious world.A group of seemingly unrelated people gather here, either because of poverty or because they have reached a dead end in life, and they are all looking for a glimmer of hope.Among them, there is Cao Sangyou, the son of a fishmonger who graduated from a prestigious school. His story makes people lament the impermanence of life.

In this mysterious institution, they are taken to a competition called “Squid Game”.The name of the game sounds like a children's joke. When the 456 contestants stood at the starting point, they realized that this was not a simple game.

Squid Game has six levels, each themed after a childhood game.The first level is the well-known “123 wooden man”.When the game started, the cruel reality shocked everyone.In this seemingly innocent game, those who violate the rules will be immediately executed.The cruelty of the game far exceeded their imagination.

Only half of them successfully passed the first level.Those who cannot cross the finish line, their lives are over in this game.And all this is seen by the wealthy people at the highest level.They sat on the comfortable sofa and watched this brutal killing in the name of innocent game.

In a thrilling survival game, the contestants experienced an unprecedented bloody and shocking baptism.Faced with the choice between life and death, they collectively begged for mercy and hoped to vote to decide whether to continue this cruel game.However, when the masked man announced that the total prize was an astonishing 45.6 billion yuan, the desire for money made many people choose to continue taking risks.

At the last moment of voting, the difference between interruption and continuation of the game was decided by only one vote.In the end, the contestants chose to return to their original daily lives, seemingly escaping from the suffocating death game.However, after returning to reality, they soon discovered that the pressure of life was far heavier than the test of life and death in the game.

In this real world, there are no threats from masked men or cruel game rules, but there is competition and pressure everywhere.Problems such as difficulty in finding a job, high housing prices, and social injustice have made the contestants feel unprecedentedly depressed.They discovered that real life is actually more cruel than the survival game, because here, there is no chance of a do-over, and every choice may affect the fate of a lifetime.

Against this background, 187 contestants chose to return to the game again.They may be pursuing that huge bonus, or they may be looking for a safe haven to escape reality.Police officer Huang Junhao is one of them.His brother disappeared in the game. In order to find the truth, he disguised himself as a masked man and sneaked into the game, hoping to uncover the secret behind it.

In a second comeback game full of unknowns and dangers, the contestants experienced life and death tests again and again.This time, they all seemed to have come to their senses and began to unite and seek the power of cooperation.Shang You, an experienced contestant, had already understood the secrets of the second level of the game, but he chose to remain silent and did not reveal any information to his teammates.

Everyone's heart is filled with the desire to survive. In order to survive, they begin to have their own hidden agendas and compete secretly.The second level of the game is the candy challenge. The rules are simple but cruel: contestants must use a needle to completely dig out the graphics they choose from the candy to be considered successful.Once the graphics is damaged, it means failure and the end of life.

Faced with this seemingly simple but actually difficult challenge, people who had already guessed the content of the game chose the easiest triangle.The lines of the triangle are simple and clear, and the success rate of cutting out is relatively high.However, Qixun unfortunately chose the most difficult umbrella shape.The umbrella-shaped lines are complicated and will be damaged if you are not careful, which puts Qi Xun into a desperate situation.

The game lasts only 10 minutes, and every second is full of tension and excitement.At the last moment, Qixun had a flash of inspiration and discovered that the gap behind the candy could be melted with his tongue.He grabbed the candy without hesitation and started licking it frantically with his tongue.This move attracted the attention of other contestants, who followed suit and started licking the candy with their tongues.

Qixun and the other contestants successfully cut out their own figures and saved their lives.But the cruelty of the game doesn't end there.Some contestants who failed to win sugar lost control and ran away in despair, even holding the masked man hostage at gunpoint.However, when they pulled off the mask, they discovered that there was actually a living young man under the mask.This astonishing discovery shocked everyone. It turned out that these masked men were not noble superiors, but just tool men in the game.

After the second level of the death game ended, the contestants thought they could take a breather, but unexpectedly, before the third level began, a tragedy quietly unfolded.Zhang Dexiu, a burly and strong man, accidentally killed a contestant.This incident shocked everyone as they had been expecting the Masked Man to stop the contestants while they were killing each other.However, the masked man fails to take action, causing the contestants to begin to panic and despair.

That night, the contestants fell into a whirlpool of chaos and cannibalism.Blood and death became the main theme of the game in just a few hours.When the early morning sun shone into the arena, only 80 contestants were left alive.

In this chaos, Korean beauty, who has been looking for reliable allies, sees Jang Deok-soo's power and potential.She thinks Zhang Dexiu is the person most likely to lead her out of this death game.She decided to win over him at all costs.Late one night, Korean beauty and Zhang Dexiu met in the toilet.She sacrificed her life to stage a fierce and passionate drama with him, trying to bind their relationship in this way.

When everyone learned that the third level of competition was tug-of-war, the situation was reversed.As a female, the Korean beauty cannot compare with the male contestants in terms of strength, so she is regarded as a liability by Jang Deok-soo.He ditched her without hesitation, choosing to team up with other, stronger male contestants.

Abandoned Korean beauties face a huge crisis.However, she didn't give up.She quickly found Qi Xun, Lao Ye and Sang You and others and formed a team.Although their strength was not strong, they relied on wit and strategy to successfully defeat the strong team and survive.

In a seemingly ordinary online game world, there is a shocking secret hidden.A doctor who always gets game content in advance secretly carries out an unknown deal with the mysterious masked man.This incident not only revealed the dark side behind the game, but also involved a series of shocking real-life issues.

According to the investigation, this doctor not only enjoys privileges in the game world and can obtain game information in advance, but also has reached some kind of agreement with the masked man in the real world.Masked men use illegal means to obtain corpses, conduct dissections to obtain organs, and make huge profits through organ trading.Doctors act as middlemen, using their gaming privileges to exchange information on organ trading.

And this dark transaction ultimately failed to escape the administrator's eyes.Administrators believe that contestants in the game have already suffered too much unfair treatment in real life, and they should not suffer any more unfair treatment in the game.As a result, the administrator took decisive action to expose the crimes of the doctor and the masked man and bring them to justice.

It is worth noting that in this turmoil, a policeman disguised as a masked man was also involved.He successfully infiltrated the criminal gang and not only obtained information about his brother, but also discovered a surprising fact:

His brother was actually the winner of this game several years ago and won a huge bonus.However, the brother who received the huge bonus suddenly disappeared, leaving many suspense and mysteries.

In the fourth level of the game, the contestants faced a new challenge - playing marbles.Different from the previous survival test, this round of the game requires contestants to team up in pairs and compete together. Only the person who wins 10 marbles can finally win.Under such a setting, contestants not only need to show off their skills, but also need to build trust and cooperation with their teammates.

In this game, the soft-hearted Qi Xun chose a seemingly elderly gentleman as his partner.He originally thought that the old gentleman had Alzheimer's disease, so he used lies and strategies to successfully defraud the other party of the marbles.

At the last moment of the game, the old man suddenly showed off his cards and revealed that he was actually pretending to be ill.He did this just to thank Qixun for his help and care during the game.In return, the old gentleman gave the last marble in his hand to Qixun, which showed the most kind and tender side of human nature.

On the other side, another group of contestants—the female thief Jiang Xiao and the loveless girl Zhiying—also presented us with a touching story.Zhiying revealed that her father had killed her mother with her own hands, and in order to take revenge, she also ended her father's life with her own hands.When she came into this game, she had lost the goal and meaning of life.

Therefore, in the game, she chose to lose to Jiang Xiao on purpose, leaving the marbles to the girl who needed to find her parents for her younger brother.This behavior of Jiying not only shows the kindness and sacrifice spirit deep in her heart, but also allows the audience to see that warmth and care can still exist in the cruel survival game.

In the intense and exciting game competition, the fifth level “Stepping Stone Bridge” is undoubtedly the most severe test for the contestants.This bridge is made of tempered glass and ordinary glass. Players must step on it carefully. If they make any mistakes, they will be killed under the bridge.The layout design of the bridge gives the contestants who go further back a greater chance of survival. This is undoubtedly a battle of psychology and courage.

However, at this life-and-death moment, upper-class people wearing golden animal masks appeared on the scene. They watched this cruel competition indifferently, as if all this was just part of their entertainment.One of the VIPs, wearing a golden leopard mask, set his sights on the police officer pretending to be a waiter.His eyes revealed a strong interest in this handsome waiter, as if he had found new fun in this bloody game.

In order to get close to these high-society VIPs, the police did not hesitate to put themselves at risk and infiltrated them disguised as waiters.He cleverly struck up a conversation with the man in the leopard-head mask, and the two soon became animated.Just as they were about to leave the scene and stage a passionate scene between men, the VIP guests were questioned by the police who suddenly appeared with guns drawn.This scene undoubtedly brings the truth behind the game to the forefront.

The game is originally a product created by people for entertainment and relaxation, but in this fifth level, it has become so cruel and dangerous.What kind of secret is hidden behind all this?Who designed such a game?What is their purpose?The police's questioning was not only about the man in the leopard mask, but also about the shady story behind the entire game.

After experiencing a thrilling stepping stone bridge game, Qi Xun, Shang You and Jiang Xiao became the only survivors.However, this game exposes the most cruel and selfish side of human nature.

Shang You, for his own benefit, did not hesitate to betray his former companions and ended Jiang Xiao's life with his own hands, just because he was afraid that Jiang Xiao and Qi Xun would join forces and pose a threat to him in the next game.

At the same time, the police responsible for investigating the matter were also involved in this life and death battle.

While tracking the suspect who attacked the VIP, he was accidentally chased by a mysterious administrator.However, just when the police thought he could not escape, the administrator suddenly changed his mind and did not intend to kill him. Instead, he made an unexpected invitation to him - to join the ranks of the masked men.

When the administrator took off his mask, the police were shocked to discover that the mysterious administrator turned out to be his long-lost brother, Li Bingxian.

Although Li Bingxian had deep feelings for his younger brother, he also knew very well that his younger brother had no interest in his invitation.During the fierce dispute between the brothers, Li Bingxian finally made a difficult decision - in order to maintain his secrets and status, he shot his brother off the cliff.

In the last level of the squid game, the duel between Qixun and Sangyou attracted everyone's attention.This game is not only a battle of life and death, but also a test of humanity, friendship and the will to survive.

The rules of the game are cruel and simple: the attacker must stand within the circle symbolizing the squid's head to win, while the defender must drive the attacker out of the squid's body.In this duel, Qixun and Sangyou are not only competitors, but also former partners.The emotional entanglement between them makes the game more complicated.

Qixun, a seemingly ordinary working class man, shows amazing perseverance and wisdom in the game.He is fully aware of his class status and understands that only by winning the game can he change his destiny.However, facing his former partner Shang You, he couldn't bring himself to attack him.This inner struggle and contradiction reflects the most complex side of human nature.

Sang Woo is a completely different character.As a soldier, he has the power to carry guns and execute players.In the game, he shows a cold and ruthless side.However, when facing Qi Xun, he showed a trace of hesitation and intolerance.Such complex emotional changes make people wonder: What choice will people make between survival and morality?