17Th Second Witness

A red ball of light suddenly appeared in the night sky of City H, and multiple people took photos of the same phenomenon. Video forensics expert He Jian was commissioned to identify the original materials, but found that all the videos had an extra frame at the seventeenth second that should not exist: the photographer seemed to be stared at from an unknown perspective. He originally thought it was just a weird video anomaly, until witnesses started suffering from eye pain and memory confusion, and the boy who had been missing for twenty years reappeared on a non-existent Line 0 ticket. Original frames that cannot be saved, text messages that disappear, lives erased from the world, doctors who have to prove themselves again every day... The more He Jian investigated, the more he discovered that what was really scary was not what appeared in the sky, but that the world seemed to be modifying everything that people could see.