The map of this city has one more layer than ordinary people can see.
Hidden in the cracks of reality is an invisible road.
Ordinary people who step onto it vanish without a trace, becoming cold missing-person cases in police files. The few lucky enough to return are all changed in some way.
Shen Xu, a 26-year-old criminal investigator, was just trying to do his job and solve cases.
In one locked-room disappearance, the doors and windows were intact, the surveillance showed nothing unusual, and the victim vanished into thin air. At the scene, Shen Xu saw the hidden road.
One step took him across space. To anyone watching, it looked like teleportation.
But this was no superpower without a price.
A short distance only made his nose bleed and left him weak. The farther he went, the more voices sounded along the road, while shadows watched him from the darkness. The road remembered everyone who set foot on it and kept calling their names. If he traveled it too often, the things inside would follow him back into the real world.
One disappearance after another broke out, and the shadow of a wave of missing persons fell over the city. Shen Xu discovered he was not the only one searching for a way through. His own bizarre three-day disappearance as a child had not been an accident.
The secret of the hidden road, the truth behind the wave of disappearances, and the presence following close behind.
Every time he took the road to save someone, he drew danger closer to himself.
The road has a way back, but the return journey may not be safe.
