Magic City Folds, the Game of Civilizations in the Gap of Time and Space

Chen Mo, the owner of an old-fashioned watch shop in a Shanghai alley, accidentally got involved in the time and space rift crisis after receiving anonymous future parts. The mysterious woman Lin Xi tells him that he is the "Guardian of Space-Time Anchor". The cracks in the city that his family has guarded for generations have been loosened, and the penetration of different space-time civilizations is accelerating. The mechanical army of the future federation comes with suspended light rails and holographic technology, hoping to reconstruct the city in the name of "evolution"; the Sanxingdui-style remains of the ancient civilization awaken in bronze mechas, trying to use sacrifices to restart the time and space seal. While on the run, Chen Mo awakened to the "time perception" inherited from his family, and discovered that the watch shop was the first anchor to maintain the balance of civilization. When Lin Xi was exposed as a future federal undercover but chose to defect, and when his neighbors used traditional skills to help resist, Chen Mo finally realized that the key to the survival of civilization is never conquest, but symbiosis. In the end, he used the clock shop as the center, fused bronze energy and future technology to create a hybrid barrier, and froze the rift in time and space in the final showdown. Shanghai has since become a magical city where alleys and suspended light rails coexist, and the new high-dimensional civilization tokens received by the watch store indicate that a greater game has just begun.