You open your eyes in a small, sterile room inside Meridian Peak International School, Hong Kong. A hospital bracelet on your wrist. A courier box beside your bed. A note that says: "If you are reading this, you have forgotten everything."
The note is signed with a single letter. Your own initial.
Outside the barred window, an abandoned campus stretches into the dark. A digital clock blinks the same time over and over. And somewhere in the building, something has already started looking for you.
THE MYSTERY THAT HAUNTS MERIDIAN PEAK
In 1990, students died in a locked room on the 7th floor of the East Building. The fire department called it an accident. The school called it a tragedy. But the memorial plaque only lists some names.
Seventeen years later, you arrived at this school as an orphan on a scholarship. You investigated. You discovered the truth. And then you forgot everything because someone, or something, reset the timeline.
Now it's March 2008. The evidence you buried has resurfaced in a courier box addressed to yourself. A diary in your handwriting. Newspaper clippings spanning decades. A coded message with seven names. A map of an ancient feng shui formation. And a USB drive that holds the key to everything.
The curse operates on a 12-year cycle. You are running out of time to break it.
WHAT MAKES THIS INVESTIGATION DIFFERENT
Multi-Layered Puzzle Design: This isn't just reading and guessing. You'll decode ciphers, cross-reference Chinese zodiac birth years with bagua trigram positions, unlock password-protected digital archives, and solve a multi-phase interactive formation puzzle, all while piecing together a time-loop mystery that spans decades.
Hybrid Digital + Print Experience: The case file PDF works alongside a fully interactive retro computer website where you browse student records, uncover hidden files, and discover easter eggs. The final puzzle is solved through a dedicated digital bagua interface with drag-and-drop mechanics.
A Story That Rewards Attention: Every detail matters. A crossed-out diary entry. A margin note in different handwriting. A patient ID number that's actually a birthdate. The deeper you dig, the more connections you find, and the more unsettling the truth becomes.
THE EVIDENCE WAITING FOR YOU
Your courier box contains everything your past self gathered before the memory wipe, plus digital records locked behind passwords only you can solve.
The Echo Newspaper Archive — School newspaper issues spanning 1990–2007, documenting the original tragedy, a ghost sighting cover-up, and a survivor's haunting testimony written seventeen years later.
The Blue Diary — Your own journal entries from months ago, chronicling your investigation into the school's dark history. Some entries are violently crossed out in red ink. The final pages are written in a different voice—a message from your past self.
The Room 1307 Note — A tear-stained letter from 1994, written by someone who tried to break the curse and failed. It contains the key to the bagua formation and a confession that changes everything.
The Student Records USB — A password-protected digital archive containing accommodation lists, registration records, zodiac reference tables, classified personnel files, and hidden backup fragments. Accessible through an interactive retro computer interface.
Additional Documents — Medical records from a psychiatric facility, school history fragments linking the campus to a 1960s sanatorium, folklore research notes on the "Seven-Star Lotus Array," and a handwritten list of seven names you must never forget.
The Bagua Formation Map — A hand-drawn eight-trigram diagram with a central circle. The final puzzle. Place the names correctly, and you might break free. Place them wrong, and the loop begins again.
