When rules become traps, deduction is the only weapon.
Former police academy student Lin Xu enters the abandoned Jingxin Sanatorium in search of his missing mentor, only to fall into an alternate dimension where the rules have been twisted. At midnight, an eerie set of rules blares over the loudspeaker. Anyone who breaks them will be dragged into the darkness by the “cleaners.” Using the police badge his mentor left behind, Lin Xu binds himself to the [Rule Analysis and Deduction System], only to discover that behind every rule for survival lies the bloody truth of a series of murders from ten years ago.
Spatial Rule 1: Silence is golden, but the truth must be shouted.
Spatial Rule 2: Trust is poison, but cooperation is the only way out alive.
Spatial Rule 3: The traitor is right beside you, and their motive is beyond anything you can imagine.
Lin Xu must use his gift for “spotting contradictions” to distinguish friend from foe among a seemingly gentle librarian, a timid college student with an extraordinary memory, an impulsive former detective, and a female doctor whose identity is a mystery. But the rules of the space keep escalating, his teammates’ secrets are exposed one after another, and the mastermind’s goal is far more than murder...
This is a death game where logic battles madness, and a suspenseful feast that lays bare human nature and the hope of redemption.
When the final rule is rewritten, who will survive the maelstrom of lies and truth?
