Under the bright light of civilization, the Eternal Star Empire is wrapped in huge brass gears and steam pipes, and there is a mysterious energy called "Spiritual Essence". It drives the magnificent steam colossus, lights up the gas lamps that never go out, and also allows some people to gain transcendent powers. They are called "synaesthetes".
However, no one knows that the "spiritual marrow" is the condensed residue of the murmurs of the ancient gods sleeping outside the abyss of the universe. Every time you draw strength, you are listening to the whispers of madness; every technological breakthrough is a step closer to unspeakable terror.
Ye Linchen, a "silent mechanic" who lives at the bottom of the empire and repairs forbidden relics, has a pair of silver eyes that can see the thread of fate. Since birth, he has been haunted by a nightmare: when the bell tower rings the thirteenth tone, the world will be swallowed up by huge pupils falling from the sky.
He thought it was just a crazy hallucination, until he received a commission he couldn't refuse - to restore an ancient relic called the "Star Box". When he touched the cold, dead casing, he saw the end of his nightmare: it was he who repaired the "Box of Stars" with his own hands and initiated the funeral of the world.
In the already doomed script, as a precise gear, obediently heading towards destruction? Or burn out your soul and make a hopeless fight against the abyss that weaves destiny? This is a fatalistic lament about resisting sinking and finding a glimmer of hope in steel and whispers.
