White talk on the wall

Author: (French) Sébastien Brossard
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Here, the frantic and chaotic emotions overflow like a refreshing glass of champagne. The perilous plot unfolds like a kaleidoscope, one after another, before the readers' eyes. In the story, the more readers progress, the thicker the mist of mystery becomes. In certain chapters, readers are like falling into a trap, finding it hard to escape before understanding the story's development. Here, the mysterious and unpredictable scenes are so tense that they leave readers breathless, and the rollercoaster story becomes a frenzied sarabande dance of a madman. The language is vivid and natural, free of vocabulary barriers and confusing plots, making it easy for all readers to finish it in one go. Here, characters are often placed in desperate and helpless situations, plagued by demons and monsters, and filled with fear in dangerous circumstances. In the boundless imagination, the author vividly and incisively portrays the protagonist's aspirations and pursuits, courage and ingenuity. Here, the octopus with its tentacles spread wide, the dragon, the toad, and the termites have become symbols of a terrifying world. The highly anthropomorphic plants and animals exude a lively sense of the times and reality, reflecting the author's rational reflection on his own society and era, as well as his deep concern for the fate of humanity.
Sigrid crashes her intergalactic transport spaceship due to mechanical failure on a desolate, uninhabited planet. Over two hundred years ago, a terrible bacteriological war had occurred there, leaving no life behind. However, at a depth of five hundred meters underground, the blue-haired girl discovers a mysterious subterranean world—the Cube City. It appears as a massive structure, with its inhabitants imprisoned in different floors, living in isolation and darkness. When the elevator doors open, no one knows which floor it stops at—whether occupied by sheep or demons, or whether it's the Middle Ages or an unpredictable future. A swarm of giant termite houses has already spread throughout the Cube City, burrowing from all directions and turning the city into a collapsing ant hill. It is impossible to drive them back because their powerful mandibles can cut through steel beams, and their claws secrete a highly corrosive acid that leaves carbonized traces everywhere in the city. The only way to reach the central computer control system at the top of the Cube City and reset the program stored in the computer is to use the elevator, but only the leadership and doctors can use it. The tunnels dug by the termites are the only escape route, but the entrance is guarded by heavily armed soldiers.
Sigrid, the young blue-haired escapee, can she find a way to save the refugees from this horrifying subterranean labyrinth?