Retrospector: My Memory Is the Price

When top programmer Lin Yuan repaired a strange piece of code, he never thought that what he signed was not a labor contract, but a life and death contract with the Old Ones. He became a "retrospector" and gained the ability to go back in time like retrieving files from archives, but the price was the memory that disappeared in reverse - every time he used the ability, he would forget a precious piece of the past. In the shadow of this city filled with ancient god sects and indescribable weirdness, Lin Yuan was involved in the Spiritual Contract Management Bureau and formed a life and death partner with the cold-faced agent Su Muqing. He regarded the curse as malware, the formation as a program flow chart, and used lines of code logic to deconstruct the Cthulhu world on the verge of collapse. But Lin Yuan soon discovered that he was not only a "player" in this difficult game, but also a "bug" in the system that needed to be cleared urgently. When his teammate Zhao Yan burned himself and turned into ashes in front of him, and when Su Muqing became his last line of defense against the wear and tear of his memory, Lin Yuan understood that there was no point in escaping. From the "archive player" who cherished his life to the "breaker" who actively intervened, he finally chose to become the "tinker" of the universe - even if the cost is his own annihilation, he must repair the underlying code corroded by the old gods and rewrite a new world for his loved ones without the erosion of mystery.