"In the end, we will either go mad with our eyes open, or wake up in madness."
Ning Xuan, Survival Log of the Lost Zone
When the apocalypse comes and the rules collapse, she deciphers the laws of death and becomes the last sane madwoman.
A blood moon hangs in the sky as twelve rifts tear open the heavens. Gray fog swallows the cities, and human civilization falls overnight.
The uncanny are not monsters, but anomalies that warp the laws of physics. They cannot be destroyed or understood; flight is the only way to survive.
Ning Xuan, an ordinary trainee nurse, unexpectedly awakens the "Principle Seeker" sequence amid the disaster. With reason as her blade and logic as her shield, she glimpses a chance of survival in the uncanny's rules of slaughter.
Forced onward through despair, she must:
Face the fanatical faith and betrayals of the "Devotees";
Uncover the lies and conspiracies within the "Lighthouse" network;
Make agonizing choices between the silence of the "Church of Return to Stillness" and the rationality of the "New Diggers";
But the price of survival is cruel:
Every time she uses her powers, they consume her humanity and her memories.
When she finally reaches the truth behind the uncanny, she discovers that humanity's only hope is to become something even more terrifying than the uncanny.
