On the night of April 1, 2012, a suspected powerful earthquake struck, causing the Future Dream Tower to sink 150 meters underground. That evening, quite a few people were still inside the building: Luo Haoran, the owner of the Future Dream Tower; Zhou Xuan, a mystery novelist; Yoko Tamada, a Japanese housewife, and her seven-year-old son, Shota Tamada; Tao Ye, an employee at the Future Dream branch of Carrefour Supermarket; Mo Xing'er, an employee of the U.S.-funded BCF Company; Ding Zi and Hai Mei, students in Class 2 of the senior year at No. 41 High School; Yang Bing, the building's security guard; Guo Xiaojun, a wealthy second-generation heir; Xu Pengfei, a corporate white-collar worker; Ah Xiang, a hair stylist; Yu Pingxiang, a cleaning lady; Wu Hanlei, a seismologist; and Xiao Guang, a teenager who claimed to be a hitman, among others... The main entrance to the lobby was blocked, and floors 10 through 19 had completely collapsed, trapping everyone inside this steel tomb with no way to escape. The building lost power, forcing them to rely on backup generators, which could only provide power to specific areas on a rotating basis. To make matters worse, earthquake expert Wu Hanlei delivered even more devastating news: according to his estimates, the entire Earth had been destroyed, and those trapped in the building were humanity's last hope. The desperate group endured seven days and nights in the darkness that had extinguished their humanity, until the night of Easter, when the legendary detective Ye Xiao returned! It turned out the world hadn't been destroyed-only the Future Dream Tower had sunk deep into the earth. Ye Xiao led a rescue team deep underground into the building and rescued six survivors trapped there: Zhou Xuan, Yutian Yoko, Yutian Shota, Tao Ye, Mo Xing'er, and Ding Zi. They were quickly transported to the hospital for treatment. However, Ye Xiao discovered an even more shocking secret underground: during those seven days and nights, some people had been murdered. Ye Xiao launched an investigation into the survivors, but found they were tight-lipped about what had happened underground, responding to him with lies and creating a Rashomon-like drama. How will Ye Xiao cut through the fog of lies to uncover the truth? What hidden motives lie behind the brutal murders underground? And what lies at the heart of all this-the good and evil of human nature? Has the apocalypse of human nature truly arrived? Find out in *Hell's Transformation*!
