In the shadow of the prosperous city of Linjiang City, psychiatrist Lu Chen has a strange ability - by touching others, he can materialize the fears in the other person's subconscious into realistic illusions: bloody ceilings, permanently closed wardrobes, blurry figures that follow... These pictures from the abyss of the human soul are not only the key to solving puzzles, but also the keyhole to open nightmares.
It all started with the consultation of the girl Lin Xiaoyu. When Lu Chen saw in her frightening vision the same twisted human face as the night his mother disappeared, he realized that he was involved in a conspiracy that spanned ten years. An organization that calls itself "Shadow Hand" is using the "Fear Symbiote" that parasitizes in the human subconscious to transform daily scenes into psychological torture tools - the glass of the commuter subway reflects the rotten face, the ticking of the bedside alarm clock turns into the crisp sound of broken bones, and even the figure in the mirror will suddenly turn its head to reveal an unfamiliar smile... Ordinary people unknowingly become puppets of fear, or have a mental breakdown, or become a weapon to create panic. When the last piece of the puzzle appeared in the hallucination of fear, Lu Chen stood in front of the door of the organization's secret base, looking at the faces floating in the training cabin that were the same as in his memory. Zhou Mingyuan's voice came from the shadows: "You think what you see is fear? No, this is the dawn of human evolution..." And the metal doorknob touched by his palm was clearly projecting the image in the other party's subconscious: those were the mother's pupils soaked in culture fluid, reflecting countless phantoms of the collapsing city.
