How would you measure the time in your life? By an unforgettable love, trophies filling a cabinet, the happy expressions on your children's faces, sunrise after sunrise, season after season of falling leaves, or a clock that ran backward?
In the future Xu Huan had seen, Doctor Gao had the happiest, most harmonious family in Xinhu. After shared brain succeeded, he became a key member of the Ethics Oversight Group and rose to Deputy Team Leader in record time.
He unraveled the secrets of the Forest and cured his own mother, along with countless patients in Xinhu. He had a learned paternal grandfather, an inventor uncle, and a ranch.
He made outstanding contributions to brain research and was always humble and courteous. Had he not been too young, many citizens would have wanted to nominate him for mayor.
Yet this star, destined to shine so brilliantly in the future, had fallen prematurely amid fire and dark night. His home had become shabby and dusty. In the entire room, only the clock on the wall still moved backward.
"Doctor Gao—Clock—what exactly was Xue Se trying to tell me?"
Xu Huan carefully took the Clock down from the wall and inspected it inside and out, but found nothing.
After Xue Se had gone mad in his place, Xu Huan felt profoundly unsafe. He did not know when or how he would die. The killer targeting him was hidden too deeply; there was not a single clue.
He clutched his hair until the hour struck and the Clock in his hands began to chime. Staring at its moving hands, he murmured, "Could it mean Doctor Gao's time? Time running backward? In the future I saw, the condition involving reversed time came from the Time of Death Complex. A year after the Forest disaster