The clock wound back to the previous day.
It was midnight and Chen Chen was walking by himself on a deserted road.
The route he took was off the beaten path. The road was in poor condition as it was covered in potholes and the occasional mud pit.
Along both sides of the road were fields of disarrayed weeds almost half a regular person's height. The field was eerily silent. The usual sound of chirping cicadas was absent and the weeds did not rustle either since there was no wind blowing in any direction.
This was an unnatural state for what was a common midsummer night.
The entire road was almost pitch-black save for the tiny glimmer of moonlight shone from above that was just enough to save Chen Chen from tripping.
"Thwack!"
Chen Chen suddenly felt a faint jolt in his shoulder when something bumped into him. It was only then when he noticed a large figure had just passed by and that their shoulders had made contact with each other.
