When Worlds Begin to Overlap

Every once in a while, a part of the world disappears - a bridge, a street, a mining area. The caliber is always three words: accident, accident, maintenance. No one dares to ask why every place that disappears seems "too right" when they come back - the bridge deck is newer than the new one, and the streets are cleaner than before. Zhou Ji, the night shift observer at the southern suburbs weather station, knows the answer: He has a stack of unread paper tapes in his hand, recording the readings that should not have appeared before disappearing each time - humidity breaks, pressure shifts, and the paper tape broke for a moment in the cloudless night. He changed the duty record: suspected error, changed to, abnormal. From that day on, the wasteland reclamation circle focused on him, and the Homecoming Association accepted him as a disciple. Kongjing and the Security Bureau issued a hunting order for him. Everyone wants to pry the truth out of his mouth - only he knows that he is not an insider. He is the only person in the world who dares to use a weather station to unravel this thousand-year-old scam. Data doesn't lie. The world lies. And he is responsible for exposing lies.