The Strange Resurgence, the Mysterious Awakening

When the laws of physics became deadly traps and the logic of perception turned into a harbinger of death, office worker Lin Mo stepped into his first “Silent Death Zone” just as the elevator in his office building stopped working. Here, any sound could trigger the terrifying rule of flesh collapsing in on itself. His only weapon for survival was the logical thinking and calm observation he’d developed as a data analyst.

As the whole world descended into the nightmare of collapsing rules, Lin Mo joined forces with special forces soldier Chen Wu, medical student Su Yu, hacker A Zhe, and veteran police officer Lao Wu to become the last sparks of humanity. They discovered that the well at their shelter dissolved the bones of anyone who drew water late at night, that hospital X-rays could predict the scenes of future deaths, and that the most terrifying domains of the strange often disguised themselves as the safest shelters.

In this race between perception and madness, every survivor paid a terrible price. Chen Wu’s muscles grew, but his bones risked shattering. When Su Yu healed other people’s wounds, the injuries transferred to her own body. When the group brought bloodstained research files out of a fallen shelter, the entity known as the “Source Point” was dragging the whole world into an even deeper abyss of rules…