The Abyssal Lexicon

When logic professor Lin Ci discovers that the staircase in his apartment building never ends and the hands of his watch are frozen at 3:07 a.m., he realizes that the world he knows is already dead.

This isn’t a murder case, yet it’s stranger than any crime: time loops here, and space folds in on itself. As the city’s seventh “missing person,” his only weapon is a mind of ice-cold reason. At the end of the seventh loop, he meets a woman who should not exist: Su Zhinuan, an emergency room doctor. Is her appearance salvation, or an even more elaborate trap leading into the abyss? Together, they struggle to solve the deadly paradox of “up is down.” Their reward is not escape, but a blank book that writes by itself: the Dictionary of the Abyss. Every deadly predicament they solve is merely an “entry” in the book. On its title page, a line of blood-red text flickers into view: “Reason: 87%… Be careful. Don’t let it reach zero.”

Now, with the arrival of special forces soldier Lei Lie, an even more terrifying truth comes to light: Wuyin City itself is one gigantic “realm.” Hunting them are not only bizarre spaces where the rules have gone haywire, but also “the fallen,” who have become intoxicated by power, and… the so-called guardians trying to “silence” them forever. When the world’s rules are lies, how can the first person to see the truth survive?