Chen Qi, a newspaper reporter, realizes that he has been reliving the same dream for a long time. The dream feels incredibly real, and he gradually discovers that it is not a dream but a parallel universe in the future. Time in that parallel universe lies ahead of time in his own. To keep his universe from being overrun by zombies, Chen Qi follows the wishes of the survivors in the parallel universe and kills a famous scientist in his own. Unexpectedly, this very act triggers an outbreak of the zombie virus. After being infected, Chen Qi discovers that the timeline has returned to the beginning, and he dreams once again of the first parallel universe he visited.