Outside the Pendulum

The moment the rainstorm suddenly stopped, Chen Mo found himself trapped in a crack in time. The raindrops in the zigzag alley are hanging in the air, the hands of the old clock tower are moving quietly in stagnation, and the strange shadows reflected in the puddles are climbing up the ankles. When he was dragged into the clock tower by an invisible force, the rusty gears began to rotate, and countless clocks made strange clicking sounds in the darkness - time here is like an overturned palette, and the past and the future are intertwined into a sticky web. The clockkeeper holds a brass wrench and confronts the "afterimage". The broken mirror hides memories that will go backwards, while the "self" without a shadow is smiling and handing over the key to make up for the regret. Chen Mo's watch lit up green as he bled, and the hourglass symbol on the back of the dial completely coincided with the door talisman leading to a deeper gap. When the pendulum began to swing in the opposite direction and all the shadows stood on the opposite side of the light, he realized that the remnants of time never really dissipated, they were just waiting for a living person to be trapped outside the pendulum forever for him.