In Byronville, the eternal capital of brass and steam, the huge clock tower is the only "sun". Its hands divide day and night, and its bells maintain order and sanity in the entire city. But no one knows that what drives this city is not coal and steam, but the "spiritual essence" condensed from the whispers of the ancient gods sleeping under the underground abyss.
People enjoyed abnormal prosperity in ignorance until "aberrants" - those beings that were contaminated by the whispers of the abyss and distorted the laws of physics, began to appear frequently.
Ye Linyuan, an "aberration handler", walks in the shadows and underbelly of the city, responsible for cleaning up these crazy debris. He was born with the ability to hear "noise" that others could not hear - it was the melody from the abyss, the fateful cry of gears biting. He thought it was just a tormenting disease, until an accident occurred and he discovered that his fate had already been written in an ancient prophecy that no one could understand.
The prophecy says: When the hands of the clock of the abyss return to zero, the stars return to their positions, the sleeping lord will wake up, and the world will return to chaos. And a "listener" will become the final variable. He is both the key to the doomsday and the only seal.
Forced to embark on the path of destiny, Ye Linyuan must explore the truth of history amidst the whispers of madness that devours his sanity, fight against the invisible alien gods, and deal with the secret sects and steam aristocrats who covet the power of gods. What he has to face is not only twisted monsters and unpredictable human hearts, but also the ultimate fate of being a sacrifice that has been destined and inescapable.
