To speak out is to die.
A strange "sound erosion zone" spreads deep in the city, where invisible sound corpses prey on sound waves as their only prey. Speaking, hitting something heavy, or even breathing violently will trigger the hunt, and the dead will eventually be left with only an empty body with their vocal cords stripped off.
The sister of proofreader Lin Ji disappeared after breaking into the sound-corroded area of the old city. Only half a bloody note was left at the scene, and there were only three words on the pen: Don't talk.
In order to find her relatives, she alone stepped into the absolutely silent forbidden place of death - an abandoned tube building full of sound traps, a silent campus with deadly echoes, and an underground hospital where the silent experiment was sealed. Step by step in the silence that even weighs your heartbeat, the shocking truth behind the voice is revealed layer by layer.
There is no dialogue between the characters in the whole text, and the plot only relies on actions, handwriting and psychology. When speaking becomes the most luxurious taboo, the chill is more piercing than the monster, and there is never-ending silence.
Intention: A narrative without dialogue throughout, stripping away the pretense and whitewashing of language. The characters' goodwill, betrayal, sacrifice, and calculations can only be directly presented through actions, eyes, and choices. The story explores under extreme survival rules: when language loses its function of deception and justification, how to build human trust and how to maintain the bottom line of human nature.