At four in the morning, seventeen bodies appeared ahead of schedule in a subway tunnel that had yet to open.
They had all died tomorrow.
One of them was Chen Jibai himself.
Even stranger, the bomb bore fingerprints he had left six months earlier. Security footage showed him sneaking into the tunnel tomorrow night, while the sixteen other victims were all being sent onto the same train for different reasons.
The accident had yet to happen, but the evidence was already complete.
When the whole city decided he was the murderer, Chen Jibai discovered that the future could be changed.
But with each change to the outcome, reality would choose new victims, fill in motives, and create a new murderer.
And those seventeen bodies had never truly been waiting for death.
They were waiting for a reason everyone could believe.
The result had already happened. The reason was on its way.
And this city needed someone to become the murderer.