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

Similar methods were used quite commonly among gods. Through dreams, they could establish a preliminary connection with selected potential believers, allowing them to arrive at a specific location. Then, through performing miracles, they turned potential believers into true believers. There were basically similar stories in different mythological systems.

As one of the most established Norse mythological monsters, it was not surprising that Jemengard would use such a method to select believers. Moreover, the death rate of its potential believers was shockingly high.

According to the old man, he had contacted a total of 16 potential believers. In the end, only three of them managed to leave the island and return to human society. The remaining people would either be lost in the maze forever or swallowed whole by Nightmare Cadet.

And now, he regarded Zhang Heng as the 17th potential believer on the island.

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