Rule Horror: This NPC Seems a Little Off

- When "following the rules" means sewing your own throat shut, and "trusting an NPC" means offering up your heart, Chu Tianqiu carves a question into a classroom awash in blood and gore: "If the rules themselves are lies, then are those who break them glitches, or the only ones who are truly awake?"

- The scissors of the woman in red, Teacher Li's wooden-grained fingers, Teacher Chen's formaldehyde soup: behind these horrifying images lies an allegory for "institutionalized violence." Every NPC is a victim conditioned by the rules, and every player could become the next perpetrator.