The life goal of trainee elf Dida is simple: to become a regular employee.
He has practiced hard for this for hundreds of years, engraved "accuracy" in his bones, and memorized the "Standard Time and Space Maintenance Guide" backwards and forwards. As a result, the assessment has not yet begun.
The core of the world - the Eternal Gear - is cracked.
Time was starting to go crazy and there were zero manpower left.
As a result, this trainee elf became the only candidate who could take on the mission.
Assessment difficulty: hell level.
Assessment content: Travel through the four seasons and collect four legendary badges that can repair time.
Transportation: An eight hundred-year-old chatty old clock carriage.
What's even worse is that he also picked up a bunch of tow bottles on the road:
Sophie, a girl who has lost her childhood memories and insists on jumping into the memory vortex to fish for the fragments;
Parker, a forgetful and rag-picking mole postman who has been wandering for three years with an old letter on his back;
There is also a ferret who believes that "a moment is eternity", says "you are so troublesome", and refuses any fetters.
In this way, a social fear elf, an old wall clock, a persistent painter, a mole who loves to get lost, and a ferret with a hard mouth and a soft heart, squeezed into a carriage and embarked on this fantasy journey of "fixing time and fixing yourself at the same time".
They pass through the spring forest entangled with crazy vines and learn that patience is more important than speed;
The beaver who mediates the competition for the Sun Crystal in Summer Lake discovers that sharing is warmer than exclusive ownership;
Dive into the memory whirlpool of the Valley of Autumn and understand that facing is more powerful than escaping;
Hug together for warmth in the snowstorm in the Winter Mountains, and understand that trust is the only reason to live.
Finally, when they returned to the clock tower with the understanding of the four seasons, they discovered that the truth of the rift was far more heartbreaking than they imagined——
It wasn't a glitch, it wasn't an accident.
He was an infatuated old man who missed his wife like crazy. He used all his strength to guard his lover's memory for a hundred years.
On one side is the cold rule that the gears must be repaired, and on the other side is the hot love that cannot be let go.
Everyone asks them to choose between rules and emotions.
But what Dida and his friends learned over the four seasons was never to "choose sides", but to -
Find the road that doesn't exist.
This is not a save-the-world story.
This is a story about peers.
Four lost souls found each other and themselves on a journey to repair the world.
And, the secret of time is never precision and control.
It's those moments of slowing down with you.
Intention: A gentle reconciliation about "accuracy" and "temperature"