Li Yan scanned the QR code and traveled to the wasteland world after the nuclear war.
He opened an antique shop in the ruins and collected junk that no one wanted - enamel jars, broken mirrors, and rusty iron boxes. People in the wasteland don't recognize these things. They call flashlights "glowing stones" and lighters "irons that spit fire."
Until a warlord named Zhang Cheng came to the door, holding an old watch engraved with "If we could do it again, I would like to know each other", and asked if there was a treasure that could turn back time.
Li Yan followed the clues and discovered dozens of iron boxes collected by a man named Li Mingyuan. It contains photos, diaries, and mobile phones from different times - the same couple, the same child, the same tree, but the person holding the child is sometimes the mother, sometimes the grandmother.
Li Mingyuan spent twenty years looking for a way between different worlds. He wanted to get back everyone he had lost.
In the end he didn't come back.
But his grandson Atu is still waiting.
Ah Tu is a little mutated orc who can't speak. He squats at the door of the shop every day and carves words on bottle caps. Carve my mother, my father, my grandpa, and Lao Li. Carve six little figures holding hands.
He waited eight years.
Finally the person who was waiting has arrived.
This is a story about collection and forgetting, waiting and reunion. In the dusty wasteland, a small antique shop collects forgotten old things and a few people who have nowhere to go.
They slowly learned to live their lives, learned to drink soup, and learned to find their own among a bunch of bottle caps with words engraved on them.
There are six little people painted on the bottle cap, holding hands.
When the wind blows, the bell at the door rings.
