Classroom in the Forbidden Zone

When the gaokao countdown and the forbidden-zone countdown hit zero at the same time

With just 100 days until the gaokao, Chen Mo, a senior at Mingde High School, notices something strange in his classroom: the sound of pages turning comes from the empty back row, the second hand on the clock occasionally ticks backward, and every night he dreams of a blackboard covered in symbols he cannot decipher.

Then he touches a freezing piece of chalk on the podium, and a bizarre countdown appears on it: [99:23:59:47]

Welcome to the “Mind Forbidden Zone”

This is a death game that overlaps with reality. When the countdown reaches zero, the classroom will turn into a forbidden zone cut off from the real world, filled with puzzles that defy the laws of physics and deadly dangers. Only a handful of “Awakened” can sense and enter it, and Chen Mo discovers that he may be the most unusual of them all: he has no combat ability, but possesses a rare talent called “Rule Analysis,” allowing him to spot flaws in the forbidden zone’s logic when trapped in a desperate situation.

Thirty years ago, a large number of students and teachers disappeared from this school. The current principal is using the fear of everyone on campus to nourish some kind of entity, preparing to drag the entire school into a permanent nightmare dimension on the day of the gaokao.

On the final day of the countdown, only three choices remain on the blackboard

• Sacrifice: Become the guardian of the dimension and remain trapped in the rift forever

• Inherit: Surrender your ability and become an ordinary person, allowing the war to continue

• Transform: Rewrite the rules and become an entity even the forbidden zone fears

Now the chalk is in your hand

Will you write your answer on the exam paper, or rewrite reality within the forbidden zone?