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

On the eighth floor of the Four Continents Hotel.

Zhang Heng had already taken off his slightly bulky firefighting suit and temporarily placed it at a corner. After dealing with his last opponent, he looked for battle traces left on each floor. And they finally led him here.

The bullet holes in the wall and the broken door showed that a fierce battle happened here not long ago. But now that the battle was over, the corridor had gone all quiet again.

If anyone else was in Zhang Heng's shoes, their hearts must have sunk by now. It could mean that 0 had killed the last special operations team member, and the latter must have gotten the memory encoder ahead of him.

Fourth Person