When the gray fog outside the dome engulfs civilization, Ling Ye, a young man from the bottom of the New Babylonian city, is forced to step into the fatal "Copy of Rules" to save a girl who is coughing up blood. The burning of the bronze pendant reveals the dusty memory - the spiral pattern key left by the parents is actually the taboo to open the seal of the ancient god Cthulhu.
Rules are death:
- The clock in Yongye Hospital always stops at 11:59, and anyone who steps into Ward 304 after midnight will be devoured by the Stitch Monster;
- Under the hanging cross of the Scarlet Monastery, the Holy Communion is the eyeball of a living person, and the nun's empty gaze can suck away the soul;
- In the corridor of the data hive, the reflection in the mirror will turn into a binary tentacle monster...
Cthulhu's gaze follows him like a shadow:
Non-Euclidean geometric buildings are distorted in the gray fog, indescribable monsters lurk in the gaps of the rules, and the loss of sanity makes reality fall apart. Ling Ye discovered that each copy was an assimilation trap set by the ancient gods, and that under the human skin mask of the director of the administration, there was the head of the old family members composed of countless eyeballs.
Decide to rewrite the end of the world:
When the truth points to the "Great Annihilation" as a disaster caused by mankind, and when the pendant reveals that Ling Ye is actually the bloodline key to the ancient god's vessel, he must make a choice between sealing the world and merging into a god. Will millions of residents perish in the gray fog, or will they become the new rulers of rules and lose their humanity forever?
Rules of survival:
Following the rules is death, and rebelling against the rules is death. In this collapsed world, only by betting on flesh and blood and dancing with reason and madness can a way out of Cthulhu's laughter be torn apart.
