On a night when the blood moon was in the sky, Ren Xiang, a military student with the talent of taboo devouring, pulled out the bronze sword engraved with the Taotie pattern from the weapons arsenal. When the blood pupil on the handle of the knife opened, he saw his future swallowed by black flames - the Eternal Night Knife was not so much a weapon as it was the embryo of an ancient god parasitic in his spine.
Su Ling, a senior who disappeared during the extreme cold mission three years ago, returned as a soul-faller with a bronze box. The bite marks on her collarbone that were of the same origin as Ren Xiang's, the forty-nine clones in the cryogenic chamber, and the bronze neural network spreading underground in Star Dome Academy all pointed to the shocking conspiracy behind the carved window in the principal's office. When the resentment that Ren Xiang devoured exceeded the critical value, the truth reflected by the blade was suffocating: the undead souls of the Hungry Ghost Realm wailing in the blood pool were actually former students who had their academic status wiped out; and every time he chopped up a giant sutured corpse, a quantum afterimage with the same appearance as his would appear in the moonlight.
This is a hunt spanning thirty years in time and space. The college emblem under the fallen soul tattoo, the burnt "Morgue" sign behind the frozen meat cabinet, Lu Jiating's side face that emerged when the Yongye Knife absorbed the resentment - all the clues were closed in the moon phase ceremony of Qingqiu Ancient God. When Ren Xiang's knife penetrated Su Ling's heart, the date on the electronic clock beat wildly between 1993 and 2097. He finally understood the meaning of the wolf head tattoo on the back of Principal Yao's neck: Everyone who swallows darkness will eventually become a new abyss.
"Welcome to Container No. 50."
When Yong Ye's system beep sounded in his head, his own blood was dripping from the blade.
