My friend Su Yang died. The police said the death was sudden.
But seven days later, Lin Yuan received a courier with Su Yang's name written on it.
There were only two things in the package: a mobile phone with a broken screen, and a note. The note was written in Su Yang's own handwriting - "Do not open the contents inside."
Lin Yuan opened it.
There is only one application on the phone, with a pure black icon, and its name is "Kaitan Game Hall". It cannot be deleted or removed, and it is rooted deep in the system like a virus. At two o'clock in the morning, a notification popped up on the app:
"Please don't look in the mirror after midnight."
From that moment on, Lin Yuan's life was dragged into a world governed by strange rules. Midnight convenience stores, abandoned hospitals, unmanned schools... Every daily scene may turn into a deadly replica. Those who violate the rules will be silently erased, while those who survive can obtain memory fragments of the deceased.
The truth about Su Yang's death is hidden in these fragments.
But every time we get closer to the truth, the rules get twisted. The secrets of teammates, the manipulator behind the APP, the black figure that cannot be reflected in the mirror - all the clues ultimately point to a suffocating fact:
Some rules are not meant to be followed in the first place.
Under the rules, all things are equal. But the rules themselves are never equal.
