During the night shift handover, a column of small gray text suddenly appeared in the psychiatric hospital's electronic medical records: [Source: Deity], [Contamination Level], [Time Remaining Until Execution].
No one else could see it. Only Shen Jingchuan, a psychiatrist, could.
One patient killed himself before the countdown hit zero. Another narrowly escaped that fate after Shen secretly "altered his medical records."
Soon, a prompt appeared on the list: [Trial Run Subject: Practicing Psychiatrist (ID: SJ-013)] [This interface is for recording purposes only and accepts no responsibility for the final outcome].
From that day on, he prescribed medication according to the guidelines while recording each choice on the list: whom to save, whom to abandon, and whom to pretend not to see.
Auditory hallucinations in the wards, shadowy figures on the security footage, and strings of numbers suddenly counting down to zero in city corners pushed him into the role of a "meter reader."
When the God-Slaying Bureau came knocking, a trial execution mission failed, and his access level slowly rose from F to E, Shen Jingchuan realized:
He thought he was saving people with the list, but he had long since been entered into a far greater divine reckoning.
It wasn't that this world had no gods. The gods had simply already sorted everyone's fate into a cold, merciless list.
