An icy touch tore through reality. Gu Yunchuan awoke from the chaos to find himself trapped in a bizarre, ruined temple. The shuffling scrape of paper figures outside and whispers of malice that bored straight into his brain announced that he had fallen into a deadly place known as the Nightmare Ruins.
The rules here were strict: stay indoors at night or your soul would be annihilated; draw lots by day to hunt, gather, and scout. Yet more terrifying than the evil spirits roaming at night was the malice of those who traveled together by day. Corpse-oil makers, skin painters, knife peddlers... villains hid among the crowd, feeding on the flesh and fortune of their fellow humans to sustain their twisted “survival.”
Gu Yunchuan had to rely on a cool head and ruthless decisiveness to struggle for survival in this despairing village. He made companions and studied the rules, unraveling the mysteries one perilous situation at a time as he tried to uncover the truth behind the Nightmare Ruins and find the faintest chance of a way home.
But when he finally touched the glimmer of light at the exit, he discovered that the deepest malice might come from the tenderest guardian at his side...
This is a game of survival in an endless nightmare. When the solitary lamp is lit, will it reveal hope, or an even deeper despair?
