Also known as: Weirdness: Cultivating Immortality with Talismans in the Cracks of Cthulhu.
This is a dark tale of survival amid an indescribable horror, where madness is the pen and one's own body the paper, as “lies” are written again and again in the hope of staying alive. At the moment he teeters on the brink of collapse, the protagonist, Li Han, “glimpses” the terrifying truth behind the veil of reality, and his reason is extinguished. To resist the all-pervasive, incomprehensible malice, he cloaks himself in layer upon layer of “strange shells.” First comes the “mad Taoist,” whose behavior and logic are chaotic. Then, through even more extreme self-alienation and deception, he deliberately lays claim to the power of the “weird.” He walks through a twisted world, not in search of redemption or power, but to conduct a desperate experiment: if I am a monster “inside and out,” will the monsters see me as one of their own? This is a fall with no end. Every new disguise takes him further from “humanity” and closer to the ultimate truth of madness...
