Chapter Three: Gu Yan Is Dead

Behind Gu Yan, his phone lit up and played seven-year-old surveillance footage. His twenty-seven-year-old self walked through the same door and pressed a hand to a scanner. A voice inside asked, “If the rules are wrong, who corrects them?” The recorded Gu Yan answered: “Someone who has died once already.” In the upper-right corner, a countdown began at 23:41:16.