Echoes of the Legacy

Unit 01, Jixu, is an advanced artificial being created as part of the 0406 Project. He has real flesh and blood, and combat-chip circuitry winds through his brain like nerves. But the part that supports his spatial abilities has yet to fully develop. To hunt down Unit 000, who slips through rifts in space-time, committing crimes and fleeing across the ages, he has no choice but to use a high-risk mask to forcibly tear open dimensional passages. Every transmigration takes a heavy toll. The upper echelons and the Party’s core members all know that four advanced weapons exist. They also know that Jixu longs for the ordinary comforts of human life. They let him play at being a normal person, indulging in small, exquisite things and filling his rental apartment with a Xiaomi 13, Moondrop earphones, and a mini MP3 player. At the same time, they keep sending him into the cracks between worlds to hunt down his own kind. His monthly salary is two thousand. If he fails to capture a target alive, five hundred is deducted from his performance bonus. The black trench coat hanging quietly atop his wardrobe is the only memento left by his partner, Paling, after they broke the rules together. That carefree, easygoing man took a fatal blow for him and died at the hands of their own kind. Day after day, he hunts down the rampaging Unit 000, maintaining the illusion of a peaceful life, until a question from one of his own kind shatters everything. Bearing the lingering echoes of the dead, his long spiritual expedition is only just beginning.