At 3:47 midnight, Zhang Yuan was awakened by the blood stains on his palms.
Until a nap dragged him into a strange dream—the solidified corpses on the purple runway, the teacher slaughtering fish in the toilet cubicle, and the crawling blood words under the countdown sign on the blackboard.
In his dream, he discovered that he was actually the incarnation of the ancient mythical beast "Tapir", and that his high school classmate Ding Hao, the girl Jia Jia who fell off a cliff and disappeared, and even the class teacher with ridged nose hair were all entangled in a conspiracy that spanned a thousand years.
The barrier between reality and dreams is crumbling. The man in the black hat controls the puppet campus eroded by nightmares; the bloody sacrifices; and the wooden sign left by Si Ye guide Zhang Yuan to find the "five locks" scattered in time and space - the pure bottle to soothe the eyes, the war drum to break the ears, the lotus to burn incense, the Buddha bowl to forbid speech, and the mind to connect the gods.
With each shackle untied, his memory goes back a step: the twins of light and darkness split by the Creator God, and the cosmic code hidden in the collective subconscious of mankind.
When the blood moon enveloped the world, Zhang Yuan stood on top of the ruins. Behind you is a broken reality that is on the verge of increasing entropy, and in front of you is a whirlpool of eternal night that swallows all living beings. This time I want to make the nightmare become the prison of God.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
