Ruinland Investigator

Thirty years ago, a "collapse" caused the laws of physics to begin to fail - gravity disappeared, time flowed backwards, and human emotions condensed into murderous monsters. The surviving humans hid in the "anchor zone" and relied on a mineral called anchor stone to maintain the stability of reality. Rich people live in first-class areas, and the reality is as perfect as if nothing has happened. For poor people living in level four areas, the air may suddenly turn into water every day. Twenty-four-year-old Su Yan is a third-level investigator - the lowest level of the Xujing Investigation Bureau. His job is to handle disappearances where the anchor has failed. Standard process: arrive on scene, confirm, record as "accidental displacement", and close the case. Until he discovered a pattern - all the missing persons had submitted applications for additional anchor stone quotas before disappearing. All were dismissed. When he began to investigate, a deeper truth emerged: the collapse thirty years ago was not a natural disaster. It's a man-made disaster. In the past thirty years, the anchoring technology that maintains the operation of the entire society has itself been creating new collapses. The ruling class knows all this. They chose silence, and - let everyone who tries to tell the truth become the next "missing person".