My name is Chen Shian, I am a security guard
Thirty years old, single, no house or car, working as a security guard in a shopping mall.
One night during the night shift, I saw a monster eating people. The monster said, "Can you see me?" I said, "No, I saw how you died." And then it died.
My world has changed since then. I can see everyone's "dead end" - the colleague who broke his hand three days later, the passerby who was diagnosed with gastric cancer next month, and myself, lying on a hospital bed with the electrocardiogram turning into a straight line.
An old man came up on the rooftop, carrying an empty birdcage, and told me: "There is something in your eyes, called the 'Eye of Reverse Practice'. You can see the thread of fate, and you can also see where the thread is broken."
Then he asked me to go to the second floor to open a broken fire hydrant. I said what could be in a fire hydrant? He said: "There is a man. His eyes are exactly the same as those on the chest of the monster you saw last night."
I said can I refuse? He said yes, but starting tomorrow you will see how the girl from the milk tea shop who brings you breakfast every day dies. Can you pretend not to see it?
So I turned on that fire hydrant. So here I stand, facing a door that shouldn't be there, and a bunch of things wondering "why can you see us?"
They say this is urban martial arts, with an imperial realm, a recycling mechanism, and a high-dimensional civilization. I said this was on the second floor of the shopping mall, less than fifty meters away from my work station.
And, I really don't know if I can survive to the end - after all, I have seen that hospital bed and the straight line -
Drop——