Echoes of a Mechanic's Past

Chen Mo is a mechanic. By day, he tightens bolts; by night, he listens to scrap metal tell ghost stories from twenty years ago.

The city is shrouded in mist, and superpowered people run rampant, but all he wants is to fix cars in peace and pick up a few “echoes of the old days” to hear as gossip.

Who would have guessed that he could recite ancient talismans at the drop of a hat, or expose the secrets of forbidden zones with a single move? He can’t even keep a low profile if he tries.

When Ning Hongying leads a team to exterminate mist beasts and accidentally injures a civilian, earning a complaint, he gets them out of trouble with a single talisman. In return, he’s added to the Night Watchers’ auxiliary roster.

Truth hides among discarded parts, and an old motorcycle carries a dying message. As he munches on steamed buns, he pieces together the world’s deepest secrets.

While everyone thinks he’s just a deadbeat scraping by, he quietly listens to every secret of the entire Age of Mist.