ER Notes: I Can See the Countdown to Death

Lu Chen was the most ordinary resident doctor in the emergency department, until that day.

While resuscitating a homeless man, his own heart stopped for three minutes.

When he woke up, he saw a string of numbers floating above everyone’s head, counting down.

They were the time those people had left.

He began using this ability to save lives. Abdominal aortic aneurysms, thallium poisoning, osteosarcoma, anaphylactic shock... He reversed one countdown after another that should have reached zero.

Then he discovered that some people’s numbers weren’t naturally counting down.

Someone was speeding up their deaths.

A genetic company called Hengyuan Health was collecting blood samples under the guise of health checkups, screening for “red-tag” individuals, then ensuring they died within their “predicted time” by tampering with prescriptions, drugging supplements, and staging accidents.

Lu Chen began investigating.

Then he saw his own name on the red-tag list.

Row 327: Lu Chen, red-tagged, pending assessment.

Someone had their eye on his countdown, too.