When the old doorbell of Convenience Store No. 444 rings again, ten years amount to no more than a fleeting data stream along the Road to the Underworld. Zhao Li, the soul ferryman, returns with fragments of a broken contract, only to reunite with Xia Dongqing and Wang Xiaoya as an amnesiac wanderer. The man who once crumbled to dust now clutches more than scraps of memory: in his hands lies the key to uncovering the truth behind Chi You’s seal and the Bronze Sacred Tree.
The Netherworld’s ruler, Chacha, has laid a memory maze across a cyberpunk underworld. The Road to the Underworld has become a cascading stream of code, and Meng Po’s soup is now a holographic projection of memory fragments. The trio must not only face the countdown to the awakening of the demon god within Xia Dongqing, but also venture into thirteen mirrored worlds. There, an evil Xia Dongqing commands Chi You’s power, Chi You’s benevolent soul is sealed away, and Zhao Li’s mirror image turns out to be the killer of the original!
When the blank final page of the Book of Life and Death points to the fate that “one of them must be sacrificed,” and an AI-reconstructed netherworld clashes with Chinese horror aesthetics, this adventure spanning the realms of the living and the dead becomes more than a ghost story. It is a portrait of humanity written in cyber runes, the ultimate question in a world where livestreaming influencers, esports-playing ghosts, and AI vengeful spirits all become reflections in the mirror:
“If souls can be stored as data, are the memories we’ve forgotten still truly us?”
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