Etching

Three years ago, something strange came to the world. They don't kill people directly, they just make rules. The convenience store at two o'clock in the morning, the corridor that never ends, the blinking self in the mirror - every weirdness has its own realm and rules. If you comply, you will live; if you violate it, you will be completely erased from the world, leaving no trace of its existence. Chen Mo was an ordinary night shift clerk at a convenience store until the woman in the red skirt handed him a blood-stained note. From then on, there was a dark red etching on his right wrist - it was a curse marked by strangeness, and it was also the only force that could resist strangeness. The more etchings he has, the more dangerous he becomes, but also the more powerful he becomes. When the rules began to contradict each other, when it was difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the bloody words on the note, when the Night Watch organization extended a helping hand to him but hid murderous intentions - Chen Mo finally discovered: Weirdness has no rules, rules are man-made cages. The true mission of the etcher is not to abide by the rules, but - Shred them. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.