When "night" swallows reality, the laws of physics collapse, and ancient cultural relics wake up in the darkness——
The only thing that can fight it is the deepest imprint of civilization itself.
The young policeman Su Mingye, the cultural relic restorer Chen Zhu, and the folklore department intern Lin Buyu encountered "nightfall" - a kind of high-dimensional information pollution that erodes reality on the night when the museum is closed. Rules collapse, cultural relics come to life, the dead whisper, and museums turn into alien mazes that swallow life.
The survivors took refuge in the "Lighthouse of Order" transformed from the ancient science and technology museum, a last bastion maintained by absolute rationality and cold procedures. The person in charge, Lu Xinghe, told them: There are only 37 hours of lighthouse energy left. In the museum, there are still several light spots with weak "orderly" fluctuations scattered around - those may be other survivors, or the remaining "anchors" of civilization's fight against the "night".
In order to find a chance to survive, the three of them stepped into the abyss carrying "conceptual" tokens that symbolized different aspects of civilization - a terracotta warrior tortoise shell engraved with the word "guard", an encrypted note left by their father, and a folk drum that can communicate "abnormalities". They need to awaken the sleeping "civilization anchor" within the time limit, connect the fragments of "law", "literary", "witchcraft" and "reason" together, and on the edge of collapse, try to conduct a desperate negotiation with the higher-dimensional existence that controls the "night".
These were the worst of times, when the embers of civilization were swaying and the boundaries between physics and myth were blurred.
This is also the last position, using history as the blade and faith as the armor, fighting for the survival of humanity.
What they protect is not only life, but also the last cry of civilization trying to prove its existence in the endless void.
