At 8 o'clock on the morning of April 16, Feng Mu's biological clock awakened him from his dreams as accurately as ever.
Although his body was two-thirds decayed, miraculously, his biological clock kept running precisely.
Feng Mu often found this absurd phenomenon puzzling: was it the corpse deceiving the biological clock, or the clock deceiving the corpse?
In the silent morning, Feng Mu's thoughts began to drift.
He sometimes fell into strange contemplation, wondering if human souls truly vanished after death, but the corpse continued like a "zombie" in movies, would these bodies retain their habits and behaviors from life?
He imagined whether a swimming champion, after death, would instinctively soak in the water every day;
Or whether a hardworking corporate drone would still wake up habitually at 8 o'clock every morning, heading to work to clock in;
