[No rebirth + no time travel + no system + no cool text + no zombies]
[Slow heat + wits and martial arts + unknown world]
After the world collapses, lifespan becomes the only currency. Cheng Ye and his sick sister Ruoqing are struggling on the edge of "returning to zero".
There is no bargaining in the ruins market, only a countdown. The crowd is like a river tightened by time: water, medicine, food, everything is written "at the price of time." Cheng Ye was thinking about how to save himself and his sister every moment; he learned to steal a breath between greed and despair, and also learned to use lies and cleverness to hold the tiny hope in the palm of his hand.
My sister's medicine list is like a reminder, and the price of the medicine is an indifferent entry written in units of thousands of hours - if you want to live, you must gamble; if you want to gamble, you must enter the maze called the "game field" again and again to win time.
He is not alone, he has a dependent sister, a handsome and skilled man named Xiaoxuan joins him, and his childhood sweetheart An Zhi returns with the secrets stolen from the hunting team. The fate of the four people is intertwined in each countdown.
But the real enemy is not the mechanisms in the game field, nor the plundering gangsters, but the invisible system that quantifies time and turns life into products. Cheng Ye understood that if he wanted to survive in this troubled world, he must first learn to exploit the loopholes of time and be its friend. The joke here is luxury, and time is hard currency; and he is ready to turn this exchange over.
(Please read Chapter 30 before commenting. When I was in college, I watched a time-trading creative film. Unfortunately, it rotted after a few minutes. After many years, I thought about what it would be like if I were the one to write it.
