Chapter One: You Will Die in Seven Minutes

Lin recognized the boy. It was him. Yet every record from before his eighth birthday had been destroyed in a data-center fire twenty years ago. “Where did you get this?” “From my damaged memory,” Zero replied. “Lin Mo, I also want to know why you were there.” The train entered a tunnel. Darkness swallowed his reflection. For the first time, Lin understood that the distress message might not have reached him by accident. It was a line thrown out of his deleted childhood, and someone invisible was holding the other end.