Chronicles of the Dark Abyss

When the law becomes a tool of plunder, when progress devours the roots of memory, human suffering has a will of its own. In the mid-19th century, the industrial revolution rolled over England. Steel, steam and capital created unprecedented wealth, and also built a sophisticated and cold system of oppression: laws were tampered with to legally seize land, finance was designed to be a trap of eternal debt, welfare institutions were turned into abacus for calculating life, and even rivers and air were sold at a price. Deep in the depths of systemic despair, a phenomenon begins to respond—the "Abyss of Darkness." It is not a god or a demon, but an "anti-god" condensed from the collective pain of mankind. When an individual's despair breaks through the threshold, the abyss will descend, using the host's soul as fuel to realize its most extreme wishes and exact a cruel price. From the steel child crying in the boiler to the statue of a wage earner frozen in time; from the activated river that bites back the polluters, to the living ledger that walks around the world to settle injustices... All kinds of deprived lives come together to form a bloody and dark picture on the back of the industrial "bright era". However, the scars of the abyss will eventually fade. The physical phenomenon will fade away slowly over decades to centuries, as if the pain never happened. This is forgetfulness's most dangerous ally. A group of people called the "Abyss Files" race to the death against time. Should we destroy the mirror that reflects our own ugliness, or should we learn to stop creating tragedies that need to be reflected under its gaze?