A Place Without Monuments

Thirty-seven years after games invaded reality, humans have learned how to survive. Do not answer the call from the bell tower. Do not leave the ward after midnight. When the red moon rises, everyone must remain silent. … No one knows why these rules exist. People only know that behind every rule, there are thousands of corpses buried. Zhou Ye never doubted them. Until that day. In the copy, a newcomer violated the prohibition that everyone had memorized since childhood. He survived. And those who strictly abide by the rules—— All dead. Zhou Ye found a sentence left by the first batch of players thirty-seven years ago in the deepest part of the bell tower: "If you can still see this sentence, it means it has learned our rules." At that moment he finally realized: It took humans thirty-seven years to write a guide. And now—— The game starts with a guide.