Xiao Daidzhao

Growing up with eccentric materialistic parents who left him in the care of his grandfather for a job overseas, Zhang Heng had learned to adapt and be unfettered by the oddities and challenges in life. But he would soon learn the baffling truth about the world he thought he knew when one day at midnight time froze and he found himself in a world so quiet and still it was deafening. That night, he discovered that he had 24 hours more than everybody else and thus, marked the beginning of his adventures. The mysteries surrounding his newfound ability only deepened when a strange old man claimed to have given Zhang Heng that ‘gift of time’ and recruited the young man to participate in a cryptic ‘life-changing’ game on his behalf. Little did Zhang Heng know that accepting those terms meant embroiling himself in many versions of reality and exposing himself to the hidden secrets of the world—a decision he could never undo.

48 Hours a Day

Zhang Heng took the ammunition and half a can of licorice candies.

A second later, he received a system notification.

[Bought licorice candy at the grocery store. Game points: +3. Visit your character panel for more information...]

Zhang Heng was getting more and more confused by this unique achievement system. Earlier, he had been given some tobacco to chew. Besides being curious about how the famous chewing tobacco tasted, he wanted to see if he could earn game points from this unique experience.

As a result, nothing happened. In retrospect, he unwittingly obtained three points from purchasing a can of licorice candy and bullets from the grocery store. The randomness was unexpected—it was no wonder those guilds still failed to decipher the game-point system even after studying it for so long.

"What's the matter?" Wendy, standing beside him, asked.

They Are Not Used To Outsiders