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

"Missing?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.

"Yes. It is said that the last time a worker saw the missing person, it was around 2 am. He sat up from his bed and muttered a few words. Then, he put on his clothes, got up, and walked out of the room. At that time, his roommates thought that he had just gone out to use the toilet. They never expected him not to return.

"Later, the construction company gathered people to look for him. Only then did they find his hard hat and wallet in the half-built tunnel. However, they were unable to find him. It was as if he had disappeared into thin air. This incident also caused a small riot because the subway tunnel they were building did not have any forks. The end was also a dead end. No one could think of where to hide him."

Unsolved Case