Chapter Four: The Man Without a Shadow

LIN XI peeled from its edge and crept over his shoe. From the dark came a girl's voice. “A-Mo, every erased person you remember leaves less of me.” The tower glass showed the fire seventeen years before. Lin Xi stood inside it wearing a wooden tag: SUBSTITUTE OF THE CALENDAR. The vision lasted one second. Near midnight, everyone in the city was forced to say the same sentence: “Tomorrow, do not trust the truth.” The date changed to September 39.