Eternal Corrector

When he was seven years old, Lin Che fell into the water collection well at Anping Road Station during a rainstorm. He was pulled up. But the face of his rescuer was blurry—a scar on his thumb, a rough palm, and nothing more. Twenty years later, he became an archivist, piecing together tampered dates and removed page numbers in the gaps in the files, always looking for the same thing: what happened on July 19, 2003. Until that evening, the subway station turned into a flesh-colored corridor, and the dark red library swallowed him and twenty-two strangers inside. The rules are simple: open the book and correct the "mistakes". A wrong translation turns to blood on the spot; a correct change erases the memory of a corresponding fact. Every book in the library is an archive that has been tampered with. Every time it is revised, the founder's memory is peeled away. The day the Founder disappears, all modifications will be undone - those who have been brought back to life, including the seven-year-old himself, will return to their dead state. He is borrower No. 001. He was also the only person who could turn the pages of the book and still live to speak. Under the layers of copies, there is a distorted trajectory of human civilization that has been repeatedly erased; and the path that started in the rain when he was seven years old and ended on the last three pages of copy No. 0 Was his only chance to find that blank face. Remember. Before forgetting.