The three seconds when your heart stops are the entrance to the abyss of another world.
Chen Mo has been racing against the second hand all his life.
Congenital arrhythmia made him live in the shadow of sudden death at any time. His parents died early and he was dependent on others. The reality was like a tightening net.
Until that day in gym class, he collapsed on the track.
The moment his heartbeat returned to zero, there was no revolving door, no white light - he was thrown into a giant steel city composed of gears, pipes and blue data flows. This is the "Youdu City of Wasted Death", a Chinese-style underworld rebuilt with cybernetic machinery. The soul is the currency here, and he is the lowest "wandering soul".
"Your body in the world can still last for five minutes." Xie Qiye, who calls himself Bai Wuchang, squats on the bank of Wangchuan River, the flame of his electronic cigarette extinguishing. "If you want to go back alive, come with me."
Chen Mo discovered the rules of this world:
One minute in reality, three days in the underworld.
Every cardiac arrest is a time-travel. Every time I return from the abyss, I only get a moment of the real world.
But "death" became his most powerful weapon.
When creditors came to his doorstep, he devoured evil souls in Youdu, and when he returned, his fingertips were wrapped with black threads of cause and effect.
When the "Abnormal Affairs Bureau" in the outer world listed him as a surveillance object, he had already established the first "Echo" team in the City of Death.
When the Palace of Hell in the other world issued a wanted order for him, he was walking through the quantum turbulence of the Naihe Bridge, and his boots stepped on the data river composed of countless memories of the undead.
"Your heart is not just an organ," Xie Qiye said in the ruins of the server in the Eighteenth Level of Hell. "It is the anchor point that connects the two worlds. But Chen Mo, the anchor point can fix the world, and it can also... Drag the two worlds towards each other."
And the "Book of Life and Death (False)" on Chen Mo's wrist, which only he can see, has lines of bloody text emerging:
[Those who tamper with fate will be counterattacked by fate]
[Next countdown: 00:00:03]
Intention: The ultimate counterattack completed in a heartbeat interval