Twelve Keys to the Abyss: A Record of Survival in the Global Forbidden Zones

At the end of clearing the stages and being healed, you become the new abyss.

Welcome to the Human Hell Tour. Your ticket is the rest of your life.

A lung cancer-ridden officer on the brink of death, a genius virologist with ALS, a Tibetan monk with heart failure, and a ghost hacker with congenital heart disease were dragged by a bronze compass into the “Liminal Labyrinth.” Twelve real-world global death zones became furnaces of flesh and blood:

- The bone-filled stomach of Sui Valley Cave: freeze time and space for one hour with a pocket watch, and age by one month.

- The radiation corridor of Nolan Bell: read a dead person's diary, and rot in sync with a ghost from 1986.

- The thunder-burial grounds of Lunyu: transparent blood draws down heavenly lightning to shatter the core of a magnetic anomaly.

“Cure your illnesses? No, you're becoming the illness itself.” Guide Ruan Qi smiled, mechanical patterns splitting across his face. When the team discovered that clearing the stages meant turning their own organs into keys, Chen Mo's lungs sprouted the rainforests of Sui Valley, Luo Ya's liver secreted Kubatang antivenom, and Danzeng's heart beat with the poisonous veins of Kamchatka...

The ultimate choice arrived:

Use their broken bodies to activate the civilization filter, in exchange for individual healing?

Or detonate the bomb with their own consciousness and bury the labyrinth forever in the planet's core?

“Have you made your choice?” The labyrinth's breath stirred the great crystal prism of Bermus:

“The blood you cough up is humanity's finest epitaph.”