The Ugly Hour: the Twelve Hours of Xuanxu

The third moment of ugly time brings chills to the bones. Chen Liyan stared at the "Xuanxu Zhi" on his desk. On the blank title page yesterday, the characters "Within twelve hours, the mirror of the ruins will be destroyed" was like blood dripping. Half of a strange black petal was stuck to the edge of the page, like an invitation to life and death from another world. The sharp beep tore through the silence, the quartz clock stopped, and the countdown outlined by the blood line quietly started. The city outside the window suddenly turned into a black mist wasteland, and the ghosts of the dead were floating under the twelve blood-patterned stone towers. The faces of the missing persons in the Xuanxu case three years ago loomed in the fog. A mysterious young man in white robes appears with a bronze mirror. The wasteland and ten blurry figures are reflected in the mirror, one of which is exactly the same as him. "Find the core of the ruins, otherwise the mirror will be shattered and everyone will die." The young man's words before disappearing set the rules for this life and death game. Bronze mirror fragments, blood-colored inscriptions, obsession transformations... When the illusion of Xuanxu begins to penetrate reality, the shadow of the end of time is approaching step by step, and the life-and-death race of the ten "key touchers" has officially begun. Chen Liyan could only rely on reasoning to tear through the fog woven by obsession, crack the truth of the three-year unsolved case within twelve hours, and find the core. Otherwise, not only will his soul return to the Ruin Realm, but the entire world will be swallowed by darkness. This battle of reasoning and survival, with time as the bet, starts from the moment of ugliness and ends with death.