Also known as: "Rules-Based Horror? Don’t Panic! Fill Out This Questionnaire First"
Xu Zhixian, 22, is an ordinary night-shift convenience store clerk in Lin’an City. His life goal is to coast through life without lifting a finger.
Then, at three in the morning, a faceless customer used a nonexistent subway ticket to send him onto the “Midnight Line 13,” a rules-based horror instance that no living person can escape once they enter.
While everyone else cautiously follows the rules, too scared to even breathe, Xu Zhixian unexpectedly binds himself to the “Rule-Bending System,” and everything takes a sudden turn
He flirts with the red-clothed ghost, pitches shampoo to the headless passenger, and conducts a customer satisfaction survey in Car 13.
The System says: As long as you’re absurd enough, the rules can’t catch you.
He cuts loose in one terrifying instance after another, driving the supernatural to question its own sanity and turning each horror scenario into a spectacular public embarrassment. But as he solves more and more instances, he gradually discovers that behind the rules-based horrors lies the truth of an old world devouring reality. And the System inside him is far more than it appears.
“Don’t panic. Let me conduct a survey first.”
