Forbidden Zone Courier

After the Ming Tide, the fears of a few become the rules of reality. Some fear promises unfulfilled, so words repeated by three people inevitably come true; some fear being forgotten, so the names of an entire city vanish from the archives; some, if they fall asleep, cause a forty-kilometer tunnel to burn. Shen Li's job is to deliver them alive to their destination before the forbidden zone closes. He can command the runaway rules to pause, but the price is permanently giving up his own senses—temperature, sound, color—until he can no longer confirm whether he is still himself. On his first transport, a nineteen-year-old 'cargo' tells him through the car door: 'Don't take me to the destination.' 'That place isn't a prison; it's a mouth that keeps itself safe by eating us.' Forty-eight hours, six hundred kilometers, a rewritten manifest. This time, Shen Li must both deliver the person and bring the destination to judgment. — Description from novelcodex.org