The Memory Pawnshop: A Glazed Bottle Pawns Away Yesterday from the Start

My name is Ji Ming, and I graduated from the criminal police academy. The day before I was due to start work, a blood-red crack split open in the wall of the internship records room, and a rotting hand seized my throat.

As I hovered on the brink of death, the System awakened: "Memory Pawnshop activated. Sole vessel: the Glass Bottle."

The Glass Bottle can pawn memories in exchange for power. But every transaction widens the crack by an inch. And the "Tainted Memory Entities" spawned by these cracks feed on the memories of the living.

I hunt the monsters no one else can see and investigate the crimes everyone else has forgotten. Then Lin Yan, a deputy captain who was parachuted in, appears, with a crack-shaped mark on the back of his hand, identical to the one on the wall of my records room. My mentor's attack, memories being extracted, the disappearance case from five years ago... Every clue points to him.

And the "Memory Eater Organization" behind Lin Yan is planning to use the cracks to devour the entire city.

I have no choice but to keep pawning my memories. My childhood, my first love, even my longing for my parents: I wager it all.

"System, whose memory can I pawn this time? Put the bill on the villain's tab."

The Glass Bottle lights up. She falls to her knees.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.