Tomato Original The night shift at the Municipal Archives contains a series of rules written with life: the door must be locked after 22 o'clock, never open the door when you hear the sound of leather shoes, hold your breath at 3 am, and pour a glass of warm water when you meet an old man in a Chinese tunic suit... Chen Mo is the fourth duty officer to take over. The first three are either missing or crazy, leaving only a blood-stained diary and a warning - "Don't trust copper buttons."
The copper buckle is a token left by the old man. The rules say that if the number is odd, the code must be burned, and if the number is even, it is safe. But when the first copper button appeared on the coffee table, the second one was hidden in the iron box, and the third one appeared out of thin air on the window sill, Chen Mo discovered that time was quietly speeding up. The key behind the door looked like a copper button, the sound of leather shoes in the corridor was getting closer, and the face of Mr. Li from the Human Resources Department was exactly the same as the photo of the archivist who died in the line of duty in 1953.
"Rules are dead, people are alive." The old man's voice echoed in the darkness. But when Chen Mo tried to break the rules, he saw himself in the mirror slowly taking off the buttons of his tunic suit, and the bloody words on the bottom of the iron box slowly seeped out - "Every person on duty is the next old man."
This is not a game that follows the rules, but a closed loop that is solved with life. When the number of copper buckles pointed to an odd number, Chen Mo finally understood that the so-called code was never about protection, but the knife handed to his throat.
