Cocoon Shadow

[2025 The 5th Seven Cats Realistic Essay Competition, Best Plot Award in the Short Story Group] Five seemingly unrelated strangers were each locked in a corner of an unknown secret room, all wearing animal masks on their faces. The bloody words on the wall, the wanton spread of blood, the girl's body dropped in a hurry, and all the strange links that happened next told them that this was a long-planned battle between trapped beasts. And in the process of this carefully laid out decryption, they gradually discovered that all this seemed to be not only a life-and-death contest between brain and physical strength, but also a psychological experiment that was closely related to each of them... Where did the controller, under the banner of treatment, want to use this "soft weapon" to take the humans trapped in the information cocoon?