When the "game" alarm tore apart reality, Lin Chen found that he and Xie Lin were involved in an infinite copy of life and death - there are foggy forests that swallow up memories, ruins of time where gears never stop, and gray bases that hide countless secrets. Each level is labeled "survival", and the only clue to pass the level is hidden in the intertwined past.
Xie Lin's fingertips always smelled of engine oil, and his focused profile when repairing the watch was like a frozen painting, but the eyes he occasionally looked at Lin Chen concealed a cold alienation from the rules of the copy; Lin Chen's hand holding the brush could describe the smallest dangers in the copy, but he could not draw through Xie Lin's secrets hidden behind the gears and experimental records - the fragments about the base, about escape, and about "light" were pieced together through near-death collaborations.
They fought back-to-back against embodied fears in the dungeon, shared a piece of half-melted candy in the ruins on a snowy night, and held each other's hands tightly at the last second before the countdown ended. Xie Lin said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here," and Lin Chen believed it. Lin Chen said, "Let's go out together and see the real locust flowers." Xie Lin also nodded.
But when the boundary between reality and copy gradually blurs, when the price of "leaving" is letting go, those promises made between life and death eventually become parked pocket watches in the watch repair shop and unfinished sunrise on the easel. The locust trees in the old alley have withered and bloomed again, and the infinite cycle is still going on, and they have already agreed at the end of a certain copy: No matter whether the light will come or not, they will wait for each other until the last second in the remaining warmth of time.
This is an infinite game about survival and redemption, and it is also a story of two souls warming each other in the dark and fulfilling their agreement with their lives - the copy will end, but some bonds will remain in the cycle forever.
Concept: The core idea of this novel is to use the life-and-death test of unlimited copies as a carrier to connect the bond between Lin Chen and Xie Lin that is full of redemption and regret. Through the experience of the two people relying on each other in the dungeon, it reveals the secrets that they were trapped in the gray past (such as the mysterious base, the shadow of the experiment). At the same time, Xie Lin's farewell without saying goodbye and Lin Chen's long wait and pursuit in reality are used to show the weight of "promise" in life, death and time - even if the dungeon repeats and the reality is full of parting, the remnants of the two people's mutual redemption in the darkness will still remain in the form of memories, tokens, etc., Becoming a spiritual connection that spans time and space.