Nineteen-year-old Chen Su is a low-level gear worker on the floating island. He was born in the apocalypse shrouded in gray fog and struggles to survive on the floating island group by burning coal to drive the steam core.
The sky split open, revealing a wriggling alien space. The gap opened every twelve days, swallowing up life and time.
He stared into the gray fog day after day, witnessed the mysterious deaths of his co-workers, and was treated harshly by the supervisors, unable to resist this cruel order.
One day, he accidentally gained the ability to preview and could see twelve seconds of the future in his consciousness.
The countdown appeared, and the dead souls whispered. He foresaw disasters, glimpsed conspiracies, and even saw himself standing in front of the high tower of the Cardinal Academy, holding the rune gear.
While others were walking blindly in the gray fog, he was able to plan ahead, avoid murderous intentions, and approach the truth step by step.
When the priest came after him with a reversed stopwatch, he had already used the rehearsal to tear open the gap in fate and face the giant eye hidden behind the canopy.
In the end, he will know that he is not a person peeping into time, but his true name is remembered by time: Time Eater.
