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

When Zhang Heng first saw it, he thought he had returned to the Moon. Other than the bumpy surface, there was nothing else save for a deathly stillness and desolation.

Whether it was soil or rocks, they were all dark red. It was as if someone had deliberately painted them with fuel. Furthermore, when Zhang Heng tried to cut off a piece of rock with the Hidden Scabbard, he noticed a viscous red liquid flowing out from the bottom of the cut. It was as if blood was flowing through his blood vessels.

There were lots of these red rocks on the island. Scattered all over the place, they were covered with red pebbles. However, these pebbles were generally larger than normal pebbles, they looked fuller, but they actually looked more like... eggs.

Zhang Heng picked one up and hit it against the Red Rock. In the end, a corner of the rock was knocked off, but the egg-shaped pebble was unscathed.

Pebbles and Handwriting