The Time-Eroding Gear

Time split open at the moment of his thirty-eighth death. Mo Yu, a senior high school student, discovered that every bizarre death on the day of his monthly math exam sent him back to a fractured moment at 3:15 p.m. In a classroom drenched by black rain, analytic geometry problems turned into bronze gears, while the scales behind his deskmate’s ear reflected memories of a past life. It turned out he was the reincarnation of the Holy Lord who had sealed the Outer God “Demon Beast Yu” a century ago, and this cycle was the gods’ final curse. As his mutated classmates devoured flesh and holographic ads warped into dragon-shaped shadows, Mo Yu glimpsed the Mark of Time deep inside a locker. An old man in a bronze mask pierced his heart with an astrolabe, and a prophecy appeared on the bloodstained title page of A Brief History of Time. In the clear light of the jade pendant as he fell from the rooftop, he saw a deeper conspiracy: the black aura of Demon Beast Yu was turning humanity into dragon-like monsters, while the power of rebirth he kept strengthening came from the final wager of the one sealed away. Caught between hexagrams on math papers and visions of battling Nine Dragons, Mo Yu gradually touched the cruel truth: compassion is the beginning of corruption, and the fate of the so-called Child of Destiny is nothing but a carefully designed sacrifice. When the dragon claws of a former companion pierced his chest, and he became the new Demon King, scorned by all humanity, the bronze gears frozen in time finally revealed the true point where fate’s cogs meshed: to end the apocalypse, he must first become the apocalypse itself. With dazzling, violent prose, this story forges a cyberpunk Classic of Mountains and Seas between mathematical symbols and dragon scales. Gears of time mesh with Lovecraftian despair, while holographic neon and ancient bronze relics achieve a bizarre symbiosis amid the blood and gore. To kill a god, must you let its blood flow through your own veins?