Rule Horror: Nightmare City

Name: Rule Horror: Nightmare City
Author: Mo Xia Li Xin

规则怪谈：梦魇迷城

by Mo Xia Li Xin (莫夏离心)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 322k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
Updated: 4mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

[Clever deductions + mind-bending suspense + instance challenges + strategic games + logical thinking + knowledge-based puzzles]

Rules are both a way to control players and the key to breaking out of a dead end.

The protagonist, Chen Mo, is accidentally drawn into a world of rule-based horror. He thinks he only needs to keep taking part in deadly games to escape.

Then Chen Mo believes that collecting five keys with different attributes will let him leave the City of Nightmares, but one unexpected event follows another...

"All the prisoners stay silent, no one shows their cards. You take the seat beside me at the roulette wheel again, and block my only gun for me."

"Crows roost all over the clock, and every hand turns backward. You open this door again in your next life, and gaze into Its eyes for me."

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