When Lin Yanqiu, an ancient book restorer, was repairing a fragment of the Republic of China's classics, he discovered that there was a pattern of half a mechanical bird hidden in the scorch marks - exactly the same as the fragment of the "Tiangong Secret Record" left behind by his grandfather. As the bloody words "in the clock shop" emerge, he is involved in a conspiracy that spans a century:
Retired sniper Zhao Ye's gun is always pointed at his back, florist Su Wanqing hides bleeding magnolias in his cellar, and watchmaker Zhou Mingyuan's pocket watch hands always stop at three seventeen. When the chest of the curator of the ancient books library reveals rotating gears, forensic doctor Meng Yao's silver bracelet oozes the blood of memory, and a machine bug crawls out of the server of e-sports girl Tang Xiaoxiao...
Seven bloodlines correspond to seven gears. Is the "son of the core" that my grandfather exchanged for his heart a savior or the last prisoner bird? The silver bracelet under the locust tree is engraved with the answer: What can remember the heartbeat is not the shadow.
This is a game about memory and identity. When the machine bird spreads its brass wings, everyone must face the same question - is the life you believe in just a program set by others?
