[Infinite-flow horror | Two male leads | Folklore and rule-based mysteries | Fated, tragic romance across repeated cycles | High-stakes twists | Two equally powerful leads]
Shen You was born with heterochromia. His right eye is veiled in gray-blue, earning him the name “Death's Mark.”
After an accident, he is forced into the high-risk horror game Echo: Countdown. He must travel through one eerie instance after another, each filled with folkloric taboos. Victory is his only chance to save his critically ill mother; defeat will trap him in an illusion forever, turning him into a pawn in a god's hand. He believes this is his sole reason for risking his life to clear each challenge.
But whenever he teeters on the brink of death, his gray-blue right eye burns and throbs, and countless fragmented memories flood his mind.
In a hazy hospital room, a figure grips his hand tightly and whispers over and over: “Stay alive. You have to stay alive... I'll take your place...”
At last, at the end of an instance shrouded in blood mist, Shen You meets Xie Wu.
He is the only person in the world who recognizes the meaning of those ominous eyes and knows the truth of the cycle that was forcibly sealed away.
The ghosts in the instances, the players' bloody battles, the terrifying rules... It is all a deception woven by the gods.
Everyone trapped in the game enters carrying regrets, only to sink into despair, never to escape for all eternity.
Time and again, Xie Wu stands in front of Shen You, letting his body break down and wear away, yet always accepting it willingly.
Sadly, the cycle repeats, and the ending has already been written.
Standing at the very beginning of it all and facing Xie Wu's inevitable death, Shen You makes his choice...
Echoes are the calls of the dead. The rules are lies told by the gods. When desire devours reason, only fire can burn everything to ashes.
Welcome to Echo: Countdown, an extremely high-risk horror game.
Choose your character... and enter the game.
