In the Gray Ridge mine disaster, the official register recorded seventeen dead people, but there were eighteen corpses lying in the morgue.
Zhou Li, the clerk in charge of registering the mine disaster, found a countersignature belonging to his younger sister on the extra female body.
My sister is obviously alive, so why has the Mining Administration prepared a body for her?
In this world, practitioners can control the scars of disasters, but they cannot eliminate the debts of disasters caused by using power. Some people bear it personally, some postpone repayment, and some use household registration, debt deeds and mining towns to quietly transfer the price to those who have no names and no choices.
In order to preserve his sister's identity, and to find out who the unknown body died for, Zhou Li started from a casualty record that should not exist. He has no bloodline inheritance, no memory of past lives, and no strange objects that give him power out of thin air. He only has years of skills in listening to and distinguishing mineral layers, a book of wrong accounts that may kill him at any time, and the price that must be paid in person every time he becomes stronger.
When the stability of a town, a city, or even the entire world is based on invisible sacrifices, a small recorder who initially just wanted to remember the correct name must answer a question that no one wants to make public:
Who should repay the debt owed by all the forces in this world?
