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

It was already 12:20 p.m. when the players regrouped.

Almost 11 hours had passed since the explosion, and Zhang Heng had already questioned everyone involved in the accident at the nuclear power plant. He finally understood why Pripyat had waited for more than 30 hours to organize an evacuation, but the main mission that the players were most concerned about still seemed a little silent.

It wasn't just Coconut. The other players couldn't help but mutter to themselves.

"We've already seen Dyatlov, Akimov, Toptunov, Bryuhanov, and Fomin, but none of them triggered the main mission completion prompt. Could it be that the explosion really had nothing to do with them?" Mouse asked as he raised his finger.

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