The heavy rain was like a silver-gray curtain, drenching the entire city. Chen Mo huddled in the corner of the abandoned subway station. His fingertips traced the peeling tiles on the wall, and the cold touch spread along the nerve endings to his heart. He has been hiding here for three hours, but the rain mixed with the smell of rust shows no sign of stopping.
The hands of the old mechanical watch in my pocket were stuck at 3:17 in the morning, and the cracks on the glass surface spread like spider webs. This is the only object that can prove that he comes from 2024 after he travels to this world. Seventy-two hours ago, he was debugging the gravitational wave detector in the laboratory. The moment the bright light flashed, his consciousness was thrown into this bizarre ruins of the future.
"Click."
The subtle sound of mechanical operation came from deep in the tunnel. Chen Mo immediately held his breath and retracted his body deeper into the shadow. In the past three days, he had learned to be absolutely vigilant in this dead city - the metal skeletons wandering the streets and the occasional strange roars in the middle of the night reminded him that this was not a peaceful earth.
