Twelve minutes before the space station lost contact, Wu Mingshi was on vacation and talking to his genius astronaut sister.
Suddenly, on the video feed, she undid her safety harness and drifted to the porthole, staring motionlessly toward some point in the depths of space. Wu Mingshi waited for a while, then she hung up on him. By the time she was forced to return and landed at the edge of the atmosphere, she couldn't remember her own name.
That same day, the robot assistant she had left on Earth sent out a countdown warning signal. It took the intelligence agencies of several countries three months to decipher the first four words of the signal. But no one dared to make the result public, because translated into human language, those four words were: "It has seen us."
After multiple rounds of questioning and investigation left Wu Mingshi physically and mentally exhausted, his family urged him to take a break in some small, fourth-tier city where his birth parents might be living. He rented a place, unpacked his bags, and was enjoying hot pot and singing when a gang of street toughs smashed his window. Wu Mingshi immediately flew into a rage and went to demand answers from the "deadbeat" landlord they mentioned, only to discover that his handsome landlord, who was just a step away from becoming a disillusioned middle-aged man... was trying to emigrate to Southeast Asia in the opposite direction?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die." - Abdul Alhazred
Once again, this is an adventure across the global village, built around a road trip and grounded in mystery, as it seeks the truth hidden deep in consciousness through legends and metaphors from cultures around the world.
Slightly chuuni literary young tenant Wu Mingshi × a hot-tempered landlord who will remain a boy until death, Ji Yan. (Note: Set in modern times, but in a fictional world. Please don't associate it with real events, settings, or people.)
Theme: People have never given up pursuing the ultimate, but for some reason, they always forget it at the very last moment.
