[Dual perspectives + dual male protagonists + Qiangqiang + Cthulhu elements + suspense]
"The Eye-Peeper" - When you stare into the abyss, the blood-rusted gears are already turning in your spine
When the steam engine emitted the first wisp of black smoke, the corpse under London Bridge opened its third eye.
Mechanic Edward Victor's prosthetic limbs are embedded with weeping brass gears, and detective Adrian Moore's tentacle tattoo under his collarbone bleeds with blood at the full moon - they all thought they were hunting monsters, until the mirror reflected the gray mist crawling in their eyeballs.
The "Eye of Cruise" is not a gift, but an ovipositor for his parasitic civilization.
Peeping is madness, forgetting is rebirth. Every time you peek into the rift of time and space, you are incubating a new carrier for the indescribable thing.
When the rivets of the Victorian era and the modern ballistic trajectories overlap in time and space, the real monster to be sealed is emerging from the back of your and my retinas.