[Mystery and Wild Premise] [Growing Daoist Powers] [Post-Apocalyptic Supernatural] [Rules Horror]
In the End of Dharma Age, yin and yang fell into disorder. During the day, mutated beasts ruled the human world; at night, strange entities swept through it.
Only from 4:30 to 5:10 a.m., when the strange entities returned to their lairs and the beasts were still asleep, did the wilderness enjoy a brief safe period.
Those forty minutes were the only time night watchmen dared leave the safety of the city walls.
They gathered food and salvaged supplies, keeping their city-states running.
Liu Zeming was a poor boy from the outer city of Changping.
To search for his missing brother, he joined the night watchmen.
During one expedition, he dug a battered tortoise shell out of the earth.
From then on, a fragmentary Daoist scripture appeared in his mind, hiding within it a method for slaying strange entities.
Surrounded by eerie shadows and mutant beasts, he gradually grew stronger and mastered the Daoist arts.
Again and again, he made it back alive during the forty-minute countdown to death.
At first, all he wanted was enough to eat.
Later, he discovered that the city-state had put a "Silent Attrition Plan" into effect against the night watchmen.
He and his team had been part of the plan for a long time.
Would they flee?
Or fight back?
