Looking Back at Strange Times

Chen Mo, the owner of a print shop in a village in the city, welcomed a mysterious customer on a rainy night. A copper-shell pocket watch that beat against time dragged him into a time vortex that spanned twenty-three years. When the pocket watch hands began to count down, he found that he was both a prisoner of time and the key to unlocking the tragedy of the explosion at the Red Star Fertilizer Plant - a fatal countdown: every time the pocket watch returned to zero, an additional corpse wearing a blue school uniform would appear in the urban village, and the badges on the chests of all the dead reflected his face. Memory black hole: The printer keeps spitting out weird photos. In the photo, I am wearing a windbreaker I have never seen before, standing at the top of an abandoned chimney, with countless parallel time and spaces collapsing under my feet. Chasing the murderer against time: Chen Mo discovered three key figures in the gap in time: his neighbor Uncle Zhang who always collects toner late at night, the fugitive Yan Zheng wearing a gas mask, and his long-dead mother. They all wore the same pocket watch, but said the same warning in different timelines: "Don't trust anyone who wears a pocket watch, including yourself." The mysterious truth: When the three pocket watches returned to zero at the same time, Chen Mo discovered hundreds of old-fashioned printers in the basement, each of which was repeatedly printing the same sentence: [Time = Memory × Entropy]. In the safe left by his mother, there is a longevity lock that he has worn since birth, and stuck in the keyhole is the factory key from the day of the explosion in 1999. The ultimate paradox: Chen Mo met himself at the top of the chimney in seven different timelines. They all raised their guns and said, "I'm here to save you." The holographic image of his mother that emerged from the rift in time and space was wearing a gas mask on his face as a baby, with the burning sky of the Red Star Fertilizer Factory in the background.