Hidden in the shadows of the modern city are cracks in uncanny tales that devour reality. Once drawn in, your only chance of survival is to follow the rules, but the rules themselves are the greatest lie of all.
Shen Yuan activates a Rule Analyzer during a death loop in a midnight apartment. Contradictory, ambiguous clauses become clear chains of logic and hidden costs in his mind. But he soon discovers that as he analyzes the rules, indescribable whispers are eating away at his sanity, while the gaze of high-level anomalies follows him like a shadow.
From the vengeful child spirits of an orphanage to a research institute’s mutated subjects, from power struggles within player organizations to the secret lairs of the administrators, every attempt to survive is a three-way contest against rules, human nature, and cosmic horror. Following clues left by fragments of the rules, he traces them back to the essence of the uncanny tales and discovers a cross-dimensional selection experiment, as well as an impending cosmic catastrophe.
His sanity is dragged back and forth to the brink of collapse. The companions around him betray him or sacrifice themselves. Holding his upgraded analyzer, Shen Yuan faces the ultimate being behind the altar of rules.
Will he become the spark that carries the horror, or shatter every shackle of the rules? This adventure of survival, truth, and freedom has only just begun…
