When reason reaches zero, obsession is the only light
Shen Jue was once a hunting-ground profiler, an expert in analyzing the behavior patterns of hunters in deadly games. An accident trapped him in the Abyss Theater, where his sanity was locked at 1/100, on the brink of collapse and in constant danger of becoming an Ashen Walking Corpse.
Yet this very “ashen” state awakened a unique ability in him: the power to sense obsessions. He can see the deepest obsessions within everyone, the convictions that keep them alive, and the fixations that can lead them to ruin.
In the Abyss Theater, survivors must activate energy nodes and open escape gates before time runs out, while hunters stalk them from the shadows. Shen Jue leads a group of teammates, each driven by their own obsession: Lin Yuan, a former special forces soldier; Xu You, a doctor; Fang Ge, a data analyst; and Su Wan, a former member of the Tribunal. Together, they struggle to survive one deadly game after another.
But the Abyss Theater is far more than it seems.
The Tribunal, the Dreamweavers, the five judges... Layer upon layer of conspiracy gradually comes to light. When Shen Jue learns that he is known as the “key,” as the Ash grows ever more corrosive and his teammates’ lives hang in the balance time and again...
He must choose: become a god, or remain human.
