[Synopsis]
I woke from a shattered incubation pod, my nostrils filled with the sweet, rancid stench of rust. Before my eyes, a crimson countdown flashed:
**01:59:59**
This nightmare laboratory, where cutting-edge technology meets biochemical mutations, was on the brink of destruction by the will of "It." Mutants crawled through slime, their eyeballs melting into milky-white gelatin. I grabbed a bloodstained lab coat and lunged toward the only way out amid the shrieking alarms, only to fall into an even deeper trap.
**"Bet your life, or bet on candy?"**
In the midnight gambling hall of a blood-red cruise ship, the silver-haired dealer's violet eyes reflected an ivory die engraved with "0321." She was Bai Heng, executioner of the laboratory's 237th loop and an escaped prisoner of the sinking System. Bone chains became a necklace of gambling chips, caramel pudding bobbed in an ice bucket, and the contract brand burning beneath her shoulder blade was steadily stripping away her soul.
The rules here were steeped in saccharine murderous intent:
* During the "Midnight Dessert Feast," wherever strawberry jam drips, suction-cup tentacles like meat grinders will burst forth;
* Swallow that bloodstained strawberry hairpin, and you'll be flooded with the memories of the deceased Bai Muzi: the laboratory's icy embrace, the birthday present never delivered amid the blaze of an explosion, and the anguished cries of a soul crushed again and again in an endless loop;
* When the cruise ship is torn apart by a colossal creature from the abyss, the only way out is to leap into thick syrup and plunge toward the platform for the dead known as "Sweet Hell"...
**When despair is the only platform, can love become the knife that cuts through the cycle?**
