Eerie Descent: I Work for the City God

At three in the morning, I got a call for help from my younger sister.

“Brother, I can see...”

Her voice on the other end sounded hollow, as if something had sucked the soul right out of her.

I rushed into her room and saw her talking to thin air. A gigantic black eye slowly appeared on the ceiling

[Rule 1: Do not look at it for more than 3 seconds]

[Rule 2: Do not answer any of its questions]

[Rule 3: It cannot harm anyone who remains silent]

Lines of golden text appeared before my eyes, as if carved directly onto my retinas.

In that moment, I knew: the world was no longer what I thought it was.

The supernatural had returned, and the whole world had fallen.

Some people were devoured by the rules, while others clung to life within them. And I, a former programmer, awakened the “Rule-Insight Eye.”

While others survive by obeying the rules, I use a programmer’s mindset to find loopholes and strike back.

While others fear the supernatural, I treat it like a bug to be fixed.

The Eye of the Abyss has its sights set on my sister, calling her a “chosen vessel” and wanting to play a “game” with me.

Fine. Let’s play.

I joined the City God Temple, starting as a clerk, and used a programmer’s way of thinking to crush every challenge:

I aced the entrance exam, breaking the record in forty-seven minutes;

I outsmarted the supernatural in the case of a vanished residential complex and rescued twenty-seven people;

I infiltrated the Abyss to save people and awakened the ability to “Create Rules”...

“Eye of the Abyss, there’s a bug in your rules. Let me fix it for you.”

Rules are both shackles and weapons. In my eyes, everything has a loophole...