Under the Pendulum

Xu Youzhi is a person who sees cracks in concrete. The end of the world comes quietly - it is not that the sun disappears, but that the "parameters" of the world are quietly rewritten: the angle of the light is wrong, the gravity is a little less, and the foundation of the city seems to have been twisted from the inside. While others were still screaming, this man who had been doing structural inspections for seven years had already grasped the underlying logic of the disaster with his instinct for "structure": a certain frequency called "energy erosion" was pouring out from the dimensional cracks, rewriting living people from the "human" format one by one. He can't save everyone. He just pulled those he could save, one by one, back from the edge of being rewritten - and used a unique skill that he couldn't explain, derived from the "grid" in his body, to give these remaining people an "anchor" against the drifting ranks. When the city cracked under the foundation, when the shadow learned to borrow strength and penetrate, when the child who shared the same ancient frequency with him was pushed into his destiny - Xu Youzhi finally understood that this disaster was not a natural disaster, but a net set by someone. And he, the brass instruments his master left behind, and the underground door are all knots in the web. Will the world be rewritten? He decided to read the first line of rules before everyone else, and then try to change people back.