Mad God 2022

Here is my rephrased version:

The figure, clad in a worn jacket and gas mask, descends into the depths of a desolate, nightmarish world via a diving bell. This enigmatic traveler, credited as an assassin, carries a cryptic map and a suitcase with him on his perilous journey. As he navigates through the underworld, he encounters a multitude of creatures beset by monstrous predators, their cries echoing through the darkness.

His odyssey eventually leads him to a city teeming with faceless drones, seemingly controlled by an abomination with twisted flesh and jagged teeth that communicates only in infantile babble. The assassin’s gaze is fixed on a towering screen, where close-ups of the creature’s eyes and mouth reveal its grotesque visage.

Deep within the city’s labyrinthine depths, he discovers a mountain range of suitcases identical to his own. His curiosity piqued, he opens his suitcase, revealing a ticking time bomb that he prepares to detonate. However, his attention is diverted by a creeping menace lurking behind him, which then attacks and drags him away as the clock’s mechanism appears poised to complete its countdown.

The assassin finds himself shackled to a table, stripped bare before an audience of gawkers. A surgeon, flanked by a nurse, begins to dissect his abdomen, rummaging through his chest cavity with cold detachment. Jewelry and documents are discarded on the floor as the surgeon searches for something specific. Finally, he uncovers his goal: a strange, wailing larva-like creature that seems to be calling out in distress.

The surgeon hands the creature to the nurse, who carries it away to an unknown fate. Meanwhile, the assassin’s body is probed and exploited by the surgeon, who bores into his skull and connects his brain to a television set. As the surgeon watches the broadcast, the world above comes into view, where the last man confers with gnarled witches, forging a map that sends an assassin plummeting down a diving bell.

The assassin’s journey takes him through a munitions depot, a graveyard, a war-torn landscape, and finally, a spiral roadway. His motorcycle and jeep serve as mere vehicles for his relentless pursuit of the cryptic map. Meanwhile, in the underworld, the nurse brings the larva-like creature to a ghostly, ethereal being that guides it to an alchemist’s lair.

The alchemist reduces the creature to a liquid state, then transforms its essence into gold through an arcane process. This golden material is used to create a new cosmos, which undergoes the same cycle of evolution, civilization, and self-destruction as its predecessor. In this way, the clock in the assassin’s bomb appears to reset and complete its circuit, setting the stage for a never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.