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

"Are all of these a person's memories?"

Black was stunned for half a minute before he asked.

"All of his memory? No, this is only a small part of it," Mr. G said. "What you see is less than a week's worth at most. It's not easy to find the particular memory we need to modify. We need to constantly fish in the sea of memories. Most ordinary people do not have any patterns in their memory storage. Moreover, sometimes we have to distinguish between the target's imagination and reality."

As Mr. G spoke, he pointed to a screen. There, Mr. G was kneeling at the feet of the middle-aged man, begging for the latter's forgiveness with tears in his eyes. "See? This is his imagination. He's probably dreaming about this day. Unfortunately, he's now lying in my memory coding room."

Black also noticed the five people lying on the ground nearby. He initially thought they were all corpses but realized that they were merely unconscious when he walked in.

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