“Knowledge is contamination. Truth is madness.”
When the reality anchor at 76° south latitude collapses, cracks in the Dreamlands spread across Earth like a spiderweb, and the laws of physics are no longer a refuge for humanity. In this cosmic “evolutionary experiment,” the omniscient and omnipotent Nyarlathotep descends into the human world under the alias “Lin Yan,” taking on the role of an observer.
He is a gentle, scholarly mythologist in the shelter, yet his body temperature is forever fixed at seventeen degrees Celsius. He toys with people’s minds and sows fear, all to collect data on extreme reactions known as “despair.”
Until he meets Su Xun, a man trying to dissect the gods with a scalpel and neuroscience.
“Lin Yan, if you regard humanity as laboratory mice, then I’m afraid…” At the brink of a total SAN collapse, Su Xun issues a chilling declaration of war. “I’m preparing to conduct a dissection study on you, too.”
When the observer becomes the observed, when a god is burned by the embers of reason, a two-sided battle that crosses dimensions and overturns all understanding begins.
Will they sacrifice their souls to unknowable beings from higher dimensions, or sign the forbidden pact known as “Mutual Contamination” with a god in the abyss where the rules are crumbling?
“The meeting of two lonely observers is, in itself, the greatest malfunction in the design of the universe.”
