I Saw Death Three Days in Advance

Chen Mo, 27, is a subway security guard who was fired just yesterday.

He has a pair of "unclean" eyes. Every three days, he sees a disaster that is certain to happen within the next three days: an escalator in a mall crushing a girl in a sunhat, an overpass collapsing, a full bus plunging into a gap. He calls the police, but no one believes him. He rushes to save people, but for every one he rescues, another face appears among the dead.

Little by little, he realizes that most of these "natural disasters" aren't natural at all. They're "accounts" engineered to look like accidents. The people who design them hold a "register," and every person in it who can "see" is called a "Bell." He is Number X.

The more people he saves, the more memories he loses. Then he discovers that the death his mother took in his place thirty years ago wasn't an accident. Someone had written both "her" and him into the register.

Clutching the old clock whose direction he has known since he was thirteen, he walks step by step toward the clock tower in the deepest part of the city.

You're not here to save people. You're here to take over the clock that has been tolling for your mother for thirty years.