The Eye in the Gray Fog

Gray mist descends, and the world becomes a hunting ground ruled by rules.

At a midnight convenience store, a coworker’s son vanishes into thin air. Lin Mo, a former criminal detective, steps inside and discovers that every product on the shelves bears deadly [Customer Instructions].

While everyone else struggles desperately to stay alive and tries to obey every rule, Lin Mo just smiles.

“These rules are so sloppily written. They’re full of bugs. Isn’t this just setting a trap for criminals?”

He picks up a bento marked “No refunds or exchanges,” and quietly writes [Rules] in the buyer’s name field.

That night, the rules governing the entire convenience store collapse. The system issues its highest-level alert:

[Warning! Uncorrectable logic virus detected!]

[Warning! “Eye of Rules” activated!]

Years later, when Lin Mo reaches the “Mainframe,” the source of this catastrophe, he asks just one question:

“Are you the one who wrote that ungrammatical sentence?”