A thunderclap split the night sky over the outskirts of Yuandu. A charred, strange talisman appeared out of nowhere in the fields, becoming the first crack in the peace. No one knew that this symbol was both a mark of time travel and the prelude to a cross-temporal mission of protection.
The alliance of nations in the future stood on the brink of crisis. An enemy spy stole core technology involving an unknown energy source and created the Annihilator, a deadly weapon capable of erasing everything. Countless lives were lost, and the ecosystem was destroyed. Wenli, sent from the future with the mission of saving his homeland, used state-controlled time-travel technology to journey back into the past.
The laws of time were clear: he had to kill his past self within 72 hours, or be consumed by the forces of the universe. But he became the exception. When his future self met the 29-year-old version of himself, who had failed the civil service exam five times and was lost despite his dreams for life, murderous intent gave way to a bond.
The two Wenlis stood side by side, evading future pursuers from an enemy nation and the assassins sent by its sleeper agents, protecting their mentor's technology from theft, and seeking redemption in the cracks of a fractured timeline. What secret did the strange talisman conceal? How could they unravel the spy network? Could two souls sharing one identity rewrite the fate of their homeland's destruction?
A battle of wits across time, and a mutual redemption with the self. It all began with a strange talisman in a field. They would defy time and wield themselves as weapons to protect their homeland and survive the calamity of time.
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