What you think are rules are just bugs written by God.
When mirrors start telling lies, human civilization has just 24 hours left.
The highly intelligent, unhinged scholar Yan Yi finds a bronze pocket watch that runs counterclockwise at the scene of his younger sister's bizarre suicide. When he presses its crown, the entire world is dragged into the "Corridor of the End," built from 24 deadly rules. Every space here is alive: elevator rules devour people, hospital corridors hide dimensional traps, and even light follows the logic of slaughter.
To uncover the truth behind his sister's death, Yan Yi must clear every domain, at the cost of losing one aspect of his humanity at each level: his sense of pain, his memories, even his love for his dead sister. The guardian Xuan Yuan, an embodiment of the rules who looks exactly like him, holds the memories erased from his childhood. What's more, a scan of his brain reveals 23 old surgical scars, proving he has already died in 229 cycles of reincarnation.
"Every rule you crack sends a hundred thousand people in the real world mad." When Yan Yi discovers that Xuan Yuan is a fragment of the humanity he shed in his first cycle, and that the 24 domains are an ancient civilization's execution ground for selecting "new gods," the pocket watch suddenly reaches zero. A 25th domain awakens inside his skull, and at that very moment, seven hundred million people around the globe see their reflections begin to change...
More terrifying than the Dark Forest theory in The Three-Body Problem.
More mind-bending layers than Inception.
When every law of physics becomes a weapon of murder, humanity's defenses of reason collapse completely!
