He kept his eyes closed.
Because the rules said he had to.
But he heard the thing’s knuckles bend beside the bed:
They were twice as long as a normal person’s.
[Rule-based horror + infinite-loop survival + no romance + mind games + dungeon survival] (Also known as: After Waking Up, I Entered the World of Rules Again)
Close your eyes, and you’ll be safe. But you’ll never know whether the world is still the same when you open them.
After falling asleep and waking up, Shen Ye found himself lying in the lobby of an abandoned hospital.
A slip of paper had appeared in his hand, with eight rules written on it.
The last rule said: One of the rules above is false.
Those who answered the broadcast died.
Those who didn’t close their eyes vanished.
And he had no idea which rule was false.
From that day on, every time he fell asleep, he could be thrown into a new world governed by rules.
Hospitals. Subways. Abandoned elementary schools. Empty shopping malls.
Every place had its own rules.
Behind every rule lurked something that wanted him dead.
Survive for 24 hours, and you return to reality.
Fail to survive, and you never wake up again.
But the rules weren’t what chilled him most.
It was the fragments he received after each successful run. Put together, they all pointed to the same truth:
These worlds governed by rules weren’t appearing at random.
Someone was setting the questions.
And from the very beginning, he had been part of the answer.
