Ten times? Twenty? Or fifty?
Tang Hanlu seemed trapped in an endlessly looping nightmare. A madman would always find her, and he would only ever do one thing: hold her in his arms and jump off a tall building.
The cycle repeated without end. Whenever she thought she had awakened from the dream and it was finally over, that madman would appear and drag her down even deeper.
Her eyes were scarlet, their surfaces webbed with blood vessels. Tang Hanlu had suffered a complete mental breakdown, and tears and snot streamed down her face.
"I can't take it! This can't go on! This can't go on!"
She shakily climbed to her feet and walked to the window in her thin pajamas. "Let me die. Please, just let me die!"
The window clattered open. Tang Hanlu stepped onto its metal frame and looked outside. The familiar city had long since changed beyond recognition. Every building was made of organs and human bodies, the railway tracks were blood vessels, and the electrical circuits were slender nerves. The energy hub had become a gigantic heart, while everything was controlled by a massive, open-topped Black Box in the center of the city.
Inside the box was the seventh-generation Smart Brain of the Xinhu Smart City District. In the deepest reaches of this nightmare, it alone was exactly the same as it was in reality: a living human brain!
Countless chains wound around the enormous Black Box, and that scarred brain was responsible for running the entire city of flesh and blood.
"The 191st dive. Tang Ling's will has been completely destroyed. Is this the sight she's been trying to hide all along?" Gao Ming stood atop an apartment building, looking down at the city constructed entirely from flesh and blood. "Is this what Xinhu