Lu Musheng's sixty-seventh birthday became the beginning of a nightmare. The body strangely "reverse growth" returns to its prime, but the price is the accelerated loss of memory and emotions. The late wife's smile turned into a symbol of coldness, and granddaughter Chen Xi's embrace lost its warmth. This is not a gift, it is a sacrifice of the soul.
In severe pain, he loses control and causes "time reversal" - the rain flies backwards and the second hand goes back. This forbidden power comes at the cost of erasing precious memories. In despair, a mysterious **bronze pocket watch** appears among the remains of his deceased wife: a dead branch hand running counterclockwise, and a blue hourglass flowing upward. The pocket watch stabilized his violent power of time, and even left a strange mark at the moment of contact - **The hourglass was entangled by an ouroboros**. At the same time, a cold and empty "signal", like a ghost beacon, points to the ruins in the northeast of the city.
His granddaughter Chen Xi is his "Xi Guang" in the darkness. She can actually feel the "cool sand" of her pocket watch, and even notice the anomalies quietly growing in the city: the "bitter sand" under the old locust tree, the "rotten sand" in the supermarket freezer... Under the calm surface, strange ripples spread.
The peace was shattered! Screens around the world were forced to cut into a horrific live broadcast - a man who called himself "**Sky Caller**" screamed that "matter is screaming" and accused "Silent Devouring" of covering up the truth! After pointing in a certain direction, he burst out with a destructive shock, completely erasing himself and the space!
Global panic. Under the official cover-up, the pocket watch on Lu Musheng's chest resonated fatally with the cold signal! Chen Xi whispered tremblingly: "A lot of sand... So noisy... And suddenly so quiet..."
Lu Musheng finally understood that he was the "** who walked in the ashes of time"
