After guarding the grave for seven years, he was slapped to death by his junior brother in front of his father's grave.
Woke up as a blind old man.
The old man's name is Wen Jiuquan, the last gatekeeper of Youxiu Valley. He left me a fire stick, a ghost-sniffing skill, and a last word:
"This smell... Useful."
My dad also left me something. A piece of rusty iron, and half a sentence that was left unfinished:
"Trust no one. Including—"
Later I crossed the desert and reached another world.
The people there put machines into bones and massacred entire cities with exoskeletons. They call it cyber.
And I discovered that by sniffing Jiuquan's nose, I could smell the "heartbeat" of those iron lumps.
Between the two worlds, there is a person who cannot find himself.
He didn't know what was at the end of that road.
But he's still walking.
