Introduction to the work
The scarlet invitation is a curse of fate and the only clue to survival. When Zhang Xiao picked up the blood-stained letter from the crack of the rental house door, he was dragged into an endless game of weird rules.
From the midnight check-in rules of Evernight Apartment, to the sacrificial taboos of Kirigakure Town, to the crew commandments of deep-sea cruise ships, and the self-study regulations of the old school building... Every "copy" is a carefully woven death trap. The writing of the rules is twisted like a living thing, and "obeying it means safety" is just a bait - some rules are contradictory to each other, some loopholes hide life, and some words are marked with the location of "it". "It" is the rule maker, hiding in the reflection of the mirror, between the gears of the wall clock, and in the unanswered call, spying on every struggling prey.
Zhang Xiao was once a prisoner of the rules. In his near-death experiences, he discovered a more terrifying truth: the disappeared former residents, the torn diaries, and the recurring symbols all pointed to the essence of the "infinite loop" - all players are the nourishment of "it", and at the end of the rules, not only the hope of escape is hidden, but also the true face of the game controller.
This is an intellectual game with "it" and a survival adventure across countless weird spaces. Zhang Xiao must uncover the truth between the rules, fight against the rules with "violations", and break fate in the cycle. Because he knew that his name might be written in the rules of the next copy, and this time, he didn't want to be the "disappearing neighbor" again.
