Jinguancheng Folding

In 2049, Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu. On a rainy day, Chen Mo, a restorer of old objects, pressed his chin against his numb left hand and scratched a Qing Dynasty copper incense burner with a file. The man in a jacket pushed open the door and entered, leaving behind a fragment of Sun Bird gold foil. The moment Chen Mo touched the fragment, the scar on his left arm glowed and caused severe pain, and the fragment automatically healed and suspended. The man said: "You are finally back." This is not time travel, it is "folding". Underneath the Chengdu Plain lies the quantum neural network left behind by the ancient Shu civilization. Physical information from three thousand years ago is compressed in the architectural folds of the city in the form of probability clouds. The neon in Taikoo Li is the sealing rune, the subway tunnel is the seam of time and space, and the bronze fungus in the red oil of the hot pot is the nerve tranquilizer that maintains dimensional stability. Chen Mo is the "living interface" awakened in the 128th civilization cycle. Every time he used his ability to heal his left arm, he would forever forget a memory of Chengdu: the smell of the dragon's hand, his mother's birthday, the file's threading technique, until he couldn't recognize himself in the mirror. Su Xiao, a doctor of archaeology at Sichuan University, appears to be a monitor arranged by the military, but is actually an "anchor" created by the system - her DNA is highly consistent with the Jinsha ancient corpse, and her eyes will emit a vertical blue light in the folded area. When five stone rhinos awaken one after another, turtle-backed clouds cover the whole city, and sacrificial pits from three thousand years ago appear in the subway tunnels in heavy rain, Chen Mo faces the final decision: fold the city and go back to the past, letting everything start again; or hatch a new timeline that has never existed in the cracks at the expense of the incompleteness that will never heal?