When the curtain of daily life was ruthlessly torn apart, Lu Yin fell into a terrifying dimension called the "Rule Crack". Here, the bizarre "realm of strange stories" is like a trap that preys on people, and every twisted rule is imbued with deadly malice. In the first catastrophe in the bloody apartment, he witnessed his sister Lu Xiao being swallowed by the crack, leaving only a blood-stained pocket watch that always stopped at 8:47.
Lu Yin, who was branded a "rift walker", was forced to struggle to survive in countless realms filled with deadly rules. His goal is not only to survive, but also to go deep into the core of the rift, find the whereabouts of his sister, and uncover the shocking truth behind the strange rules that subverts reality. He is not alone: the calm and rational medical student Shen Yi is burdened with the mystery of his mentor's alienation; the taciturn veteran "Lao Qiang" fights the rules with battlefield intuition; and the quirky hacker girl "Xiao Qi" is looking for her lost brother in the flood of information.
However, the price of survival goes beyond physical strength and courage. Every analysis of the rules and every use of power are quietly eroding the boundaries of their humanity - "rule alienation" is like a tarsal maggot, pushing the body and soul into the inhuman abyss. Not only do they have to face the strange "managers" and deadly rule traps in the field, but they also have to be wary of the covets from the real world: the official organization "Lawmen" who try to control the power of the rift, the radical "predators" who believe in weak carnivory, and the "middlemen" who wander between the rift and reality, whose identities are mysterious.
Caught between order and chaos, on the edge of humanity and alienation, Lu Yin holds on to his sister's pocket watch and continues to move forward.
