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

The first sentence of Lin Sisi's essay went like this—'Does our there our universe have aliens? It is a topic our planetary observation team has been studying.'

'With constantly developing science and technology, we receive new and updated news every day. Like the vast universe, the planetary observation members know that our human civilization is still in its infancy. If other intelligent beings do exist outside the solar system, how do they view us? Are their intentions toward us good or malicious?'

Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows. For a child of Lin Sisi's age, this weekly diary's writing style and contents were surprising. Zhang Heng remembered how she looked like in the photo. Thin and having some sparse bangs on his forehead, she was hardly noticed by the crowd.

Planetary Observation Team