Luo Lin has run more than six hundred murder mystery games without a single mishap. She's known as the woman at the very top of the DM pyramid. Then one day, she's forcibly pulled into an abandoned city where it rains forever. A new app called "Rations" appears on her phone, displaying a crooked line of red text: Welcome to Evernight City. The scenario has begun. Clear it as soon as possible.
"All right." Luo Lin looks around at the spiral streets, the red-lit windows, and the clearly abnormal pedestrians, then smiles. "They really nailed the set design. I'll just treat this like a private immersive game."
Evernight City is a hub concealing countless rule-based scenarios. Every human maliciously dragged there struggles to survive, and the death rate among new players is 90 percent. Some are even assimilated by the will of Evernight City and become "cleaners," dedicated to hunting ordinary players. No one has ever made it out of Evernight City alive. All they can do is keep clearing scenarios until they die.
But Luo Lin refuses to believe that. She's a star DM for murder mystery games, and she's long since gotten tired of rules. In this terrifying world that drains players' SAN at every turn, if she treats everything like a game, she won't lose SAN, right?
As for the app called "Rations," it evolves from a pointless announcement machine into a powerful cheat that can scan for hidden clues, flag contradictions in the rules, and even deflect mental contamination.
What is this Lovecraftian Evernight City? It's just a star DM's happy place!
Luo Lin has an easy time running scenarios in Evernight City, right up until she picks up a baffling firefighter named Meng Weiyu.
Meng Weiyu: We can't leave. There's someone inside!
Luo Lin: Come on, man. That's a monster!
It can't be helped. A woman who treats death like a murder mystery game and a man who treats his own life as expendable somehow become the most inseparable scenario-clearing partners in Evernight City.
Theme: Break superstition and promote positive values.
