Materialism Failure Report

When your shadow begins to refute you, when the girl under the sun loses her shadow - what proof do you have that the world you see is real? There are unexplainable dislocations in Lu Chian's life: items in his home move quietly, and there is a millimeter-level deviation between memory and reality. He received an anonymous note: "You don't belong here." The psychiatric diagnosis showed that everything was normal, but the shadow under his feet became darker and darker day by day, as if a thick ink with independent consciousness. Until he saw a photo on the forum: a girl holding a doll in front of an ancient house at noon, with no shadow under her feet. He thought it was just another urban legend, until the girl actually appeared across the street, under the blazing sunshine, with nothing at her feet, and slowly waved to him. Common sense began to crumble. Lu Chian discovered that his shadow could not only swallow up light and details, but also "come alive" in moments of crisis, whisper in an inhuman way, and fight according to an unfamiliar set of physical laws. And that shadowless girl represents another more absolute and terrifying abnormality. This is not a mental illness or a hallucination. It's a troubleshooting book about the world itself. The bedrock of materialism was cracking around him. Shadows become weapons, shadows become stalkers, and everyday objects become coordinates of betrayal. Lu Chian was forced to change from a follower of the rules to a tester and opponent of the rules - fighting for his own existence on the edge of the cognitive cliff. A cold record of "abnormality", a violent interrogation of the foundation of reality. When matter is no longer materialistic, what is the only evidence you have left?