When the neon lights begin to flicker erratically at three in the morning, the underlying code of the city is exposed.
The world is undergoing an irreversible "error iteration". Don't look in the mirror at midnight, don't respond to calls without caller ID, and don't look at the last three carriages when riding the subway... What were once urban ghost stories are becoming deadly physical rules, cutting the real world into countless bizarre and desperate copies. Ordinary people tremble under the rules, like NPCs waiting to be deleted.
But Shen Ke is an exception.
As a top secret room designer and geek architect with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, when faced with those indescribable horrific rules, what he felt was not fear, but - deep disgust. "The logical closed loop of this copy is too poor" and "there are serious bugs in the boss's behavior pattern".
When he awakened the ability to observe the "underlying annotations" of all things and perform a limited number of "logical overwrites", the hunting moment began.
Facing the S-class ghost who wielded a chainsaw and asked him to abide by "Article 4 of the Code", Shen Ke elegantly pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, consumed his Sanity Points (SAN), and modified the definition of the Code with his backhand.
"Sorry, according to the newly revised underlying logic, you are now my security guard."
From the late-night streets where weird things are rampant to the skyscrapers where ancient gods resurrect, Shen Ke walks on the edge of madness and rationality. He is not here to survive, he is here to "debug" this collapsed world.
It's just that his repair method is a little bit... Devoid of martial ethics.
