[The Strange Erodes the World]+ [The Original Strange Realm]+ [Dark, Not Invincible]+ [Mild Horror]+ [No Female Lead for Now]+ [Temporal Suppressors and Time Relics]
“What is the strange?”
“The strange is a state, a piece of corrupted code!”
“The strange survive by consuming reality and rewriting the timeline. When a temporal suppressor shines on them, they’re forcibly pushed back into the normal moment when they ‘never existed’ in the first place. They aren’t killed. They’re erased.”
“So the strange can be erased?”
“Wrong! The strange have merely returned to their original state. Humans can never kill them, unless they’re killed by the strange!”
When Shen Jinsi was jolted awake by a bone-chilling cold at 3:17 in the morning, the young courier, who had taken half a year off school and never even earned his diploma, discovered that the world before him had changed...
At the Forbidden City in Yanjing, a hundred-foot-long strip of white silk hung from the corner tower, swaying without a breeze. Along the empty palace paths, rows of paper effigies dressed as palace maids walked with lanterns in hand. In the security room, guards sat rigidly in their chairs, their eyes vacant and their breaths faint...
At the ancient city wall of Xi’an, blood seeped from large patches of the bricks, dark red liquid slowly trickling through the cracks. In the night, rows of indistinct shadows in black armor marched down the streets. Everyone they passed instantly froze in place, their bodies intact, their minds dead...
In this world, now being consumed by the strange, even staying alive takes luck. Without it, you’ll be eaten.
