A Survival Game of Bizarre Rules

The countdown began with the thirteenth chime inside the subway tunnel.

Xiao Ming gripped his pocket watch, which had suddenly started running fast, and watched the train's electronic display turn bloodred: 00:00:00. A girl in a JK uniform was wrapping a bloodstained bandage around her right eye. This was the first second after they were chosen by the Dark Veil.

When his athletic roommate willingly put on a pair of wolf claws during a game of Werewolf, when a senior from medical school dissected the rules with a scalpel, and when a real-world bubble tea shop began selling memory-infused drinks, Xiao Ming finally understood that their 72-hour reprieve was a sweet curse. The prophecy sealed beneath Su Ning's blindfold, the unknown creature writhing in Lin Ye's backpack, and the time redemption coupons that suddenly appeared in the midnight shop: every reward for clearing a stage was dragging reality toward the abyss.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.