A bizarre car accident drags Shen Qingzhou, an environmental reporter; Zhou Yi'an, a cold-blooded executive; Chen Jinkui, a self-serving businessman; and Wang Meng, the driver responsible, into a strange and twisted hell. Here, neon lights coexist with decay, Ox-Head and Horse-Face roam through steel jungles, and the eyes of beast-faced, human-bodied creatures burn with a thousand years of hatred for humanity’s slaughter of animals. To obtain survival supplies and supernatural abilities, they are forced to take part in the “Nuwa Game,” transmigrating through the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Amazon’s blazing forest fires, and the data abyss of online violence, completing atonement quests in cinematic historical settings.
When Shen Qingzhou discovers that the “Heaven-Mending Stones” contain fragments of the victims’ memories, and Zhou Yi'an uncovers that the game is a crucible meant to cleanse ecological sins, the beast-faced organization “Claw of Vengeance” has already raised its blades. The only way out lies beyond the Gate of Reincarnation: only an innocent baby can pass through. But their experiences in hell have tainted every soul, and reversing the ritual requires a living sacrifice to burn themselves away.
The countdown begins, and one teammate after another mutates. When a glowing, gate-shaped birthmark appears on Shen Qingzhou’s collarbone and he awakens in a hospital bed in the human world, the dog-headed man A Zhong whispers his final words behind him: “The Judge is watching... The ‘Gate’ was never closed...”
