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Introduction to "The Watchmaker's Last Second" On a rainy night, the copper bell of "Lao Zhou Watch Shop" no longer rang along with the sound of watch repairs - watchmaker Zhou Xiuming fell in front of the workbench, holding a piece of paper with the word "3" in his left hand, and the hands of the brass pocket watch in front of him stopped at 10:17. Criminal investigation consultant Shen Yan came to pick up his grandfather's old pocket watch, but he accidentally broke into a murder case. He found that the clocks and clocks in the store were stuck at 10:15, and the murder weapon was a claw hammer in the store. There was a copper key engraved with the word "3" hidden in a secret compartment of the workbench, and there was an old photo of a young Zhou Xiuming side by side with a man in work clothes. The pocket watch on the man's wrist was actually the same as the locked pocket watch at the crime scene. Clues lead to an old case from three years ago: the man in the photo is Zhou Xiuming's cousin Zhao Lei, who fell to his death at the Hongxing Machinery Factory. As for Zhao Lei's son Zhao Feng, not only did his fingerprints match the worn fingerprints on the shredded paper, but his identity as an auto mechanic also matched the metal debris at the scene and the traces of sleeping pills in Zhou Xiuming's body. When Shen Yan used a copper key to open the iron cabinet at the old site of the machinery factory, an account book recording the bribery scandal surfaced - what Zhou Xiu Ming repaired was not a watch, but the truth about his cousin's murder; what was hidden in the pocket watch was not gears, but evidence to overturn the case. The two-minute time difference from 10:15 to 10:17 has become the key to uncovering the shady story, allowing the late truth to return to its original position with the re-turning of the hands.

Introduction to the work "Stardust Remnants" In the "abandonment zone" left by the expansion of human civilization, Lin Ye, a stardust scavenger, drives the rusty "Watcher" and makes a living salvaging interstellar debris. This star field with abandoned battleships and space stations floating around is a corner that the Federation has deliberately forgotten, but it hides the secrets of the old era. During a routine mission, Lin Ye received a commission from a mysterious black market businessman to find an old federal scientific research ship that had been missing for fifty years. When he broke through the star ring barrier and approached the target, he discovered that the "ghost ship" was not empty - the biological samples remaining in the cabin were mutating, and the data flow on the wall pointed to the "Stardust Symbiosis Project" banned by the federation, and his genetic sequence actually matched the core data of the plan. As the Federation fleet suddenly appeared in the abandoned zone, Lin Ye was forced to be involved in a conspiracy that spanned half a century: the so-called "abandoned zone" is a testing ground for civilization screening, and "stardust symbiosis" is mankind's last hope against unknown interstellar threats. On one side is the past of free wandering, and on the other side is the future related to the survival of civilization. Lin Ye must find his own answer among the rusty wreckage and bright stardust.