Five Feet Eight Inches

A heavy rain that lasted for eight days caused subsidence in the old city of Chenghe County. Chen Mo, a college student who originally just wanted to finish his summer internship, followed the archaeologist Gao Hailin into a closed brick room exposed from the ground. There is a skeleton inside that has been dead for more than a hundred years. There is no door. There is no passage. Surveying instruments were scattered around the deceased, and he seemed to be measuring the inconspicuous old wall in front of him until the last moment of his life. The subsequent exploration made things completely out of control. Three more underground spaces isolated from each other were discovered around the same huge masonry structure that was thought to be just the "old warehouse foundation." Four rooms. Four bodies. Four completely different eras. They had never met each other, and the other rooms may not even have been built when they died. But all four people died in the position closest to the center. What's even stranger is that the things they left behind seem to point to the same secret that has been buried for hundreds of years. When the four pieces of history finally converged in 2026, Chen Mo discovered—— What really needs explanation may never have been the four corpses. It was something they had faced together for four hundred years.