When the bronze compass begins to rotate in the opposite direction, all words become a fatal gamble.
Chu He, a graduate student in the Department of Archeology, and Lu Li, the mysterious gallery owner, were involved in a consciousness prison called the "Ten Thousand Scrolls Labyrinth" because of their fight for a Warring States relic engraved with quantum symbols. Here, the ghost of Morse code is hidden in the century-old marriage book, and the Dunhuang murals reflect the brainwaves of the brain-dead. Every time a copy of the novel is unlocked, the memory of the real world is tampered with by the system.
Chu He, who is supremely rational, gradually discovered that the blood and tears oozing out of the eyes of those brides from the Republic of China and the sound of the gears in the steam clock tower were closely related to the mysterious disappearance of his father's archaeological team three years ago. The cynical Lu Li has always concealed the crueler truth - the barcode under his collarbone shows a countdown. Every time he touches the core of the copy, his body will quantize and dissipate for 17 seconds. When the desks in the campus ghost story formed a Fibonacci sequence, and when the mechanical assistant 007's engine oil revealed Lu Li's blood type, the two were forced to face the ultimate paradox: Is this system built using Chu He's future memories to resurrect an important person, or to prevent the real world from being formatted?
In the mystery of the collision between quantum physics and oracles, what is more terrifying than ghosts and gods is the digitized love and hate. When the bloody lantern illuminates the final choice: let Lu Li's remaining consciousness be trapped in the system forever, or exchange Chu He's dissociation disorder for the restart key? In front of that glowing door, all the NPCs suddenly turned to them and smiled - these dead souls who had met in various dungeons had exactly the same facial features as the two of them.
