When convenience store boy Zeng Rui was attacked for the third time on the night shift, the tooth mark on the back of his neck suddenly became hot. Stopping time for five seconds allowed him to avoid the deadly silver armor, only to find that the pursuer was himself who should have died three years ago.
The mysterious killer Xu Haoran in a black trench coat breaks into a convenience store. The premonition shows: the rotting corpse of the proprietress in the freezer, the surveillance screen crazily counting down 9999, and countless Zeng Rui holding knives at each other. The real crisis is hidden in the rusty Pendulum Laboratory on the third underground floor of the convenience store. Twelve-year-old Zeng Rui is floating in a petri dish.
"Time is not a river, it is a mirror." His mother's last words echoed in his ears, and Zeng Rui discovered that his blood could actually cut through the cracks in time and space. The silver-eyed boy's space replacement ability caused the tooth mark to grow in reverse, and the trio was forced to be involved in a time mezzanine. Every extra second of stay would create a new parallel time and space.
When the Pendulum Organization's pursuers revealed their true colors, the gears beating on the backs of their necks exactly matched Zeng Rui's birthmark. Xu Haoran's precognitive picture collapsed in blood, and the blood words on the freezer glass were fading in reverse. Zeng Rui grasped the blood-stained tuna can, and the date on the label was fixed at July 21, 2013 - the day his mother sacrificed her life to save him.
