Cinder City Night Watch

Under the modern city shrouded in neon, "Eclipsed Shadow" feeds on the darkness of people's hearts, turning their living bodies into empty puppets. Chen Mo was originally a driver who would look around repeatedly even when crossing the street late at night. His biggest wish was to save money to rent a small house with a balcony and live peacefully into his sixties - until a car accident on a rainy night revealed the secret of Eclipse and he was dragged into the whirlpool of extraordinary power. He once curled up and trembled under the claws of the Eclipse, watched passers-by being devoured in order to save his life, and carved "living" into his bones and blood as a belief. But when the shadow of the eclipse entangled the person he wanted to protect, when the familiar streets turned into purgatory, this coward who was greedy for life and fearful of death actually clutched the broken copper piece and read out the remaining poem he wrote in the desperate situation: "An ant still cherishes his life, why should he be afraid of the abyss? If no one is watching the night, I will be the only light." From a coward hiding in the corner to a night watchman standing alone against thousands of troops, he carved out a glimmer of hope in a dead situation and turned his cowardice into armor. But the price of being extraordinary is that people around him fall one after another: the blood of his best friends, the tears of his lover, and the last words of his comrades-in-arms all become the knife that drives him forward. When the strongest eclipse tore through the sky, Chen Mo stood on the ruins, with the burning city behind him and endless darkness in front of him. He raised his fist and shook the clouds: "I, Chen Mo, on the twenty-third day of the winter month of the Gengyin year, became the 'Guardian of Ashes'!"