When the Wednesday cycle reached the seventh time, Lin Shen discovered that the TCB code on the bottom of the coffee cup was growing countercurrently with time. As an ordinary employee of Star Vault Technology Company, he originally thought that the repeated dates were just system failures, until he saw data streams flashing through his colleagues' pupils, and bloody juice engraved with clone numbers oozing from the office green plants - this tampered world was collapsing at the quantum level.
The black official car of the Time Calibration Bureau stops on time every day, and the memory cleaning wave emitted by the roof antenna array turns the entire city into a docile electronic pendulum. Only Lin Shen, who suffered quantum brain damage due to an electromagnetic accident in his childhood, was able to piece together the truth through 243 unusual details: the faded photo of the orphanage in the desk drawer, the squirming nanorobot in the anti-electromagnetic medicine bottle, and the "self" dumping memory chips on the green plants in the late-night surveillance.
At the flea market in the south of the city, a mysterious watchmaker gave him a snake-shaped pocket watch. When the dial was turned upside down, what was revealed was the reflection of the pupils of thousands of clones in the culture chamber. As TCB's "Wednesday Plan" gradually came to light, Lin Shen had to confront his old self in front of the incinerator - the beak-masked man with a white hole engine beating in his chest, folding the entire time and space into the fuel of a perpetual motion machine of memory.
The explosion in the delivery room on September 27, 2099, the bloody formula in the mother's laboratory, and the crying baby floating in the coffee-stained metal particles... When Lin Shen drank the last cup of quantum coffee, he finally understood: it is not electromagnetic waves that calibrate time, but the paranoia of human beings who still choose to love each other in an infinite loop.
