Do you believe it? Humanity's common memories, legends, and rumors will condense into an invisible "narrative logic chain" that supports the stability of reality.
Once cognitive divisions and historical contradictions occur, the logical chain will break, forming "narrative folds" that engulf reality - the ancient town that can never be left, the yesterday that plays on a loop, and the illusion where reality and fiction are intertwined are all born from this.
Lin Qian, a graduate student in an unpopular major who was rejected by her tutor, was obsessed with proving the theory that "cognition can affect reality" and broke into the town of Forgettable Time where the rumored "time has expired" alone.
Here, she accidentally saw the red thread wrapped around the old locust tree - that was the cognitive conflict between "the locust tree was three hundred years old" and "the locust tree was fifty years old", and it was an expanding loophole in reality.
And a mysterious man wearing gold-rimmed glasses suddenly appeared and gave a three-day countdown: "Find the original files of the fire in the Republic of China, otherwise the whole town will be swallowed up."
Without superpowers or a system, Lin Qian could only rely on semiotics to dismantle legends, use probability theory to deduce rumors, and use historical data to complete logic.
But she didn't expect that this "reality stitching" journey would not only have to contend with cognitive biases and logical paradoxes, but would also involve a narrative battle between the lawful and deconstructive factions - one side wanted to maintain the old consensus, and the other wanted to destroy the old order.
What made her heartbeat even more unbalanced was that the mysterious man who repeatedly "persuaded" her seemed to be hiding secrets related to her and the truth of the world.
And her encounter with him was a "two-way rush" cognitive game from the beginning.
"Your logical chain is missing my link."
