Zhuang Cheng, a university student with a lifelong obsession for urban legends and supernatural phenomena, regularly investigates rumors of hauntings and strange occurrences. His friend warns him that this hobby borders on illegal behavior, but Zhuang Cheng persists, driven by a desperate wish for a life that spirals out of control and an adventure that defies mundane reality. He would rather risk death than live an ordinary, uneventful life. After hearing a rumor about a haunted abandoned construction site near his university, where the vengeful ghost of a worker killed in an accident appears at night covered in blood and abducts female students, he goes there alone with a flashlight. Inside the unfinished building, he hears a crash and discovers a young woman in a blue-and-white hospital gown, soaked in fresh blood, collapsed and unconscious against a concrete wall. She looks about thirteen or fourteen, delicate and pale. His first instinct is to call the police and an ambulance, but as he pulls out his phone, she regains consciousness briefly, grabs his wrist, and whispers not to call the police before losing consciousness again. Suspicious, Zhuang Cheng examines her for injuries and finds no wounds. Instead, his hand discovers a hidden handgun loaded with live ammunition—one bullet already in the chamber and four in the magazine. Realizing that she is not a simple victim but a potentially dangerous fugitive, his morbid curiosity overpowers his moral caution. He decides to take her home rather than report her. He wraps her in his jacket, carries her out of the construction site, hides her in nearby bushes, retrieves a large suitcase from his apartment, and smuggles her inside it back to his off-campus rental room. He places her in his bed, takes the gun, and sets a makeshift alarm by balancing an empty cola can on the bedroom door handle so that if she tries to leave, the can will fall and wake him. He spends the night on the living room sofa, examining the gun and contemplating the legal consequences: illegal possession of firearms and harboring a fugitive could mean years in prison. That night he has a nightmare in which a stern police officer arrests him, his parents disown him, and his friend cuts ties, reinforcing his fear. Yet he remains determined. The next morning, he ventures into the bedroom to check on her. As he leans in, her eyes snap open and with lightning speed she grabs his collar and executes a perfect judo throw, pinning him to the floor. She is weak and gasping, but she demands to know who he is and where he is. However, Zhuang Cheng had hidden the gun under his waistband. During the struggle, he frees a hand, draws the gun, and presses the muzzle against her side, regaining control of the situation. She stiffens but does not yield. Held at gunpoint, she reveals her true identity: she is a survivor from a future world that has fallen into an unprecedented cataclysm, where supernatural phenomena, monsters, and superpowers shattered human civilization. She crossed time and space from that apocalyptic future to this present era with the mission to prevent the calamity from ever happening. She asks him to return her gun so she can continue her work. Zhuang Cheng, caught between the law and the incredible reality that has finally come knocking, now holds the decision that will alter his life. His longing for the bizarre has been fulfilled beyond measure, but the choice he makes—to trust this dangerous girl and potentially become a partner in saving the world, or to turn her over to the authorities and preserve his normal existence—hangs unresolved as they face each other in a tense standoff, the gun still in his hand and her fate waiting on his answer. The story ends at this critical point, leaving his decision and the future of both their lives open.
