逆旅

Under a dome constructed of machinery, a boy transformed into a marionette rides his bicycle across high-altitude steel cables day after day. Each time he completes a "journey," mechanical arms cover his body with medals, turning glory into heavy shackles. When a white pigeon's "betrayal" sends him tumbling into an electronic wasteland, the animal tearing apart the medals exposes his rust-covered shell—yet this fleeting moment of clarity is merely a glitch in the system, and the roar of the reconstruction factory soon drags him back into the cycle. With the cold, steampunk aesthetic, it reveals the absurd logic of survival in modern society: so-called "excellence" is a meticulously designed cage, and every perceived awakening is merely a calculated margin of error within the vast machinery's operation.