When I was seventeen, my sister disappeared.
Twelve years later, I pressed the password she left and stepped into an abandoned urban village. The next second, blood words appeared on the wall: "Welcome to the City of Samsara. Time will always stop at 3:00 in the morning."
I'm a detective. I thought I could get out alive by reasoning.
Until I was on level -3 and killed the monster that looked like my sister with my own hands. Before she died, she said: "Xiao Yue... You finally... Came to replace me..."
Later I learned that there are nine levels of recursion in this world. There is a "sister" waiting for me on every floor. Every rule is alive, able to speak, lie, and kill.
On level -4, the person I trusted most stabbed me ninety-nine times.
On the -7th floor, a girl has been waiting for me for three thousand years in the time rift: "Lin Yue, I have known you for three thousand years. And you have just met me."
Finally, a man who had been guarding the heart for 217 years dug out the heart and handed it to me: "Son, go look at the sun for me."
