In the apocalypse, which is like the teeth of rusty gears, Lu Zhao, a seventeen-year-old slum thief, holds a pocket watch that can reverse time. He is burdened with the blood debt of his sister Lu Xue who was devoured by the eclipse group, and steps into the Cthulhu Abyss where machinery and flesh are blended.
When the mechanical crow of the Seventh Night Watch team dragged him into the Tower of Eternal Day, when the clone Lu Xue opened his molten gold pupils from the training chamber, when the pocket watch left by his father began to reverse the cause and effect - Lu Zhao discovered that he was the "container of original sin" where the corroded core descended. Bai Ling, a girl with blue stripes around her neck, Rock, a giant man with a Roman tattoo embedded in his spine, Bai Feng, the leader of the funeral society with half of his face rotten... All forces are competing for the time key in his body, and the truth is as cruel as peeling an onion: human civilization is just a culture medium filtered by corroded core, and every time back in time is feeding the time eclipse mother nest in deep space.
In this cyber hell with a bronze relief sealing the corroded core, Lu Zhao must spend five seconds in a cage to tear apart the bloody lies of human evolution between his sister's body temperature memory and the cold data of the mechanical prosthetic eyes. When the bell tower of the night watcher rings, when the eclipse of the funeral home swells, and the billions of children of the eclipse descend from Orion - the price of reversing time will eventually make all survivors understand:
The so-called hope is just the courage to make a wrong choice in a rusty world.
AI creation traces are too heavy...