The bloody moonlight soaked into the ancient books, and librarian Mo Buze's sleeves oozed blood - the borrowing list from 1997 was actually sandwiched in the "Atlas of East Asian Witchcraft and Gu" that was put into storage in 2021.
When he scanned the dynamic QR code in the book, the bronze door suddenly opened:
The Mona Lisa in "Midnight Art Museum" screams, and Van Gogh's starry sky swallows living people. Only "emotional resonance" with the mournful cry in the painting can freeze the killing;
The metal dice counts down 71 hours, and the truth is like a peeling scalpel: the real world is restarting for the 97th time, and the bodies of all players in the cryo chamber have long been marked by the "family algorithm".
A blind girl blinded her eyes to predict the future, a famous Peking opera actress died by wrapping a bullet in her sleeve, and in the cracks in Mu Lanming's memory, her mother's deleted personality was murmuring: "Leave tears for the ending."
When Mo Buze's eleventh illusion of falling from a building overlapped with Mu Lanming's mechanical blue pupils, the final chapter of the music box "To Alice" sounded——
"Eating the system, or being tamed by it?"
The blood contract was settled, and the aurora passed over the silhouette of the reunion outside the cafe.
But the dice in their pockets were still spinning silently.
