Introduction to "Seven Days of Secrets"
In a world like an iron house, someone cast time into a ruler made of ice. In the ashes of seven days and nights, cancerous marks climbed up the spine, and frozen fingers groped for the rules of minus nineteen degrees - the organs of the living were marked with price tags, and the eyes of the dead were engraved with birth dates.
The man in fluorescent green said this was an "immortality experiment," but what was burned in the incinerator was clearly medical records from twenty years ago. The tooth marks left by the mother's deathbed sprouted in the cycle, growing into the cold light of dissecting scissors. When she cut open the "self" hanging in the refrigerator, she realized that the umbilical cords of those clones were originally nooses that strangled the times.
Some people gouge out their eyes to survive, while others cut out their hearts to attain enlightenment. When the sweet and sour juice condensed into a bloody hexagram on the asphalt, he realized that the seven-day plot was just a new style of "Diary of a Madman" - each corpse was the eleventh page that had not yet been written, and each countdown asked:
"Has the method of cannibalism finally improved?"
(Note: The whole text uses the image of alternating cold and heat, which coincides with the setting of "temperature threshold"; the umbilical cord noose symbolizes the intergenerational exploitation of the black market of organs; "Page 11" pays tribute to the unsolved case of missing pages in the original manuscript of Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman", reflecting the ultimate rule that has not been revealed in the novel)
