I Am Repairing Cultural Relics in the Lost Time Zone

After the Bell Disaster, there were many "time-lost zones" in the city. A minute there may be repeated for ten years, and a person may disappear silently from all files and memories. Only old things brought back from the lost time zone and occasionally testimonies that have been deleted by time still remain. Lin Jianwei is the most humble restorer in The9 Archives. She cannot predict the future, nor can she be a psychic; she can only peel off mildew, correct fibers, and leave as much original material as possible among the fragments that others have judged useless. Until she repairs an old burnt bus ticket. The ticket comes from the ruins of the South Tower seven years later. The holder is the sister who died ten years ago but has now completely disappeared from the household registration. In the remaining traces of time, the future Lin Jian said to her slightly through the firelight: Don't let them fix that clock. On the same day, the South Tower, which had been dormant for ten years, rang the thirteenth bell. In order to prove that his sister once existed, Lin Jianwei entered the return period and followed a team that specializes in recovering abnormal old objects through missing trains, repeated rainy nights, underwater museums and neighborhoods forgotten by the entire city. But she gradually discovered that the lost time zone was not a wound left by the disaster. Someone has been using deleted people to calibrate the city's time. And seven years later, she was at the last calibration point.