The uncanny world is about to merge with reality through a mysterious game called Netherworld Record. In thirty days, the barriers between the two worlds will dissolve, and the uncanny will descend upon the human world in full. Even now, strange phenomena have begun appearing here and there in reality.
Xiao Ran was a summer vacation delivery worker who had never played the game. Then one late-night delivery went horribly wrong and pulled him into a sudden pocket-dimension instance that had formed in the real world.
On the brink of death, he merged with Zero, a self-aware AI from a parallel world in the apocalypse.
Zero told him that in thirty days, the two worlds would merge.
Real-world pocket-dimension instances were rare opportunities. To survive, and to protect his mother and younger sister, who lived far away in the county town, Xiao Ran chose to download Netherworld Record. He knew that every time he logged in, he was both building up his strength and hastening the arrival of the apocalypse.
But he had no choice.
Because the real disaster wasn't these thirty days.
It was the moment the uncanny descended, thirty days from now.
