After the catastrophe, the world begins to “come unmoored.”
Open your front door and the street outside might be gone. The two ends of a railway line might find themselves in different seasons. Cities severed from the world's spatial connections drift beyond the map, carrying their residents, streetlights, and unfinished dinners with them.
Humanity relies on anchor spikes to keep roads in place, using dwindling supplies to hold on to an ever-shrinking homeland.
Chen Du is a repairman.
All he wanted was to earn enough for rent and keep running the repair shop his master left him.
Until an accident revealed that he could see the old connections that had not yet completely vanished.
What looks like scrap to everyone else might still conceal a path forward.
He repaired a door and rescued thirty-nine people.
Later, White Tower City, missing for eleven years, sent a signal:
“Licheng, please respond.”
“We can see your lights.”
