Xu An, 28, works the night shift at the morgue of a funeral home. I worked as a security guard, delivered food, failed to pass the civil service examination, and finally landed in this position that no one wanted to do. He chose this job for one reason - the night shift pay was high.
My mother died of illness three years ago, and she owed more than 200,000 yuan in medical expenses, which she has not paid off yet. He doesn't like to talk, and his colleagues think he is weird, but he doesn't care. Until one night, he touched a newly delivered body, and a picture suddenly flashed in his mind - the last few seconds of the deceased's life.
At first he thought it was a hallucination. But the second and third time, the picture became clearer and clearer. He discovered a pattern: the last 10 seconds of a body that died within 6 hours can be seen by touching it. Like the end of the surveillance video, there is no sound and it is blurry.
This ability is almost useless - dead people can't talk to him. Until he met a delivery rider who "died suddenly". The scene in the picture was not a rental house, but an underground parking lot. I came across another woman who was "drowning". In the picture, someone pushed her head into the bathtub.
The corpse had a clean cause of death, but the picture didn't match. Xu An began to take notes, and the more he took notes, the more frightened he became - the identities of these people were being used by living people. A black market chain of identity substitution emerged: someone caused an "accidental death", took away the identity of the deceased, and gave the living a new life.
And the deeper he searched, the more he discovered that the end of the chain might be connected to his own life experience - he himself might also be a person who "borrowed his life" to live.
