No one remembers where the school rules came from. They only know that every graduation season, the air is bitingly cold. The walls of the teaching building have been soaked into gray and black by the years, and the smell of rust and old books is always floating in the corridor, which is the smell left by countless liquidations.
Here, freshmen are never ignorant children.
They had an innate cold understanding, and there was no curiosity in their eyes, only the indifference of carrying out their tasks. They quietly dispersed, like shadows crawling into classrooms, stairs, and corners, forcing every old student who was about to leave school into an inevitable ending.
The old students had already given up resistance.
They know better than anyone else that graduation is never about leaving, but about being liquidated and harvested. There was no scream, no struggle. The moment the blade fell, the last thing they saw was the same young and indifferent version of themselves many years ago.
School will eat up every trace.
Body temperature, smell, name, and memory were all silently erased. One second he was a young man about to be liberated, the next second he fell into darkness, and when he was spit out again, he became a baby who knew nothing. They forget their pain, their fears, and who they are, and then are sent to this school again, grow up, enroll in school, and become the next executioner wielding a knife.
Year after year, the cycle repeats.
If you kill the you in the previous life, the you in the next life will come and kill you again.
There is no redemption, no end, no true rebirth and death.
This is not a campus, this is not growth, this is not education.
This is a closed-loop hell where the same soul, in the same cage, is forced to kill each other.
Graduation is a lie, new life is an illusion, and massacre is the eternal truth.
Over and over again, we kill ourselves with our own hands, and in complete oblivion, we quietly wait to be killed by the next self.
Purpose: Using the campus as a cage, we will reveal the self-devourment of growth and the closed loop of fate, and explore the individual's eternal pursuit of freedom and salvation in the cycle.