Silent Afterglow

The world is slowly being erased. Intense sadness, anger or love will lead to systematic "whitening" obliteration, turning people into a beach of white sand. The rulers drained the emotions of the civilians as fuel, and people became numb and hollow, living like zombies. On the sewer level of Lance City, Jiu opened a useless pawn shop. He does not accept gold or silver, only those old things that others dare not keep: the copper buttons that the old tailor has touched for twelve years, the old hammers stained with blood and sweat by the blacksmith, and the last broken string of the blind girl. He locked these old items one by one into iron boxes in the basement. Until the high-ranking executive of the Control Bureau arrived and prepared to clean the street indiscriminately. Nao stood in front of the threshold with a sack, and dumped the rags that carried the obsessions of ordinary people one by one in front of the law. "I'm a lazy person. I don't plan to throw away the things I brought in."