Chapter 1: The Extra 24 Hours

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Zhang Heng found out that his day was 24 hours longer a month ago.

The first thing that changed was his watch, a Starfish Automatic III mechanical watch made by Tissot in Switzerland, which had been given to him by his parents in Iceland on his eighteenth birthday.

Very perfunctory Taobao ordered, the seller shipped the goods, and the address bar also filled in the wrong class.

Zhang Heng didn't bother to complain about these two people, and before he graduated from elementary school, these two immortals couldn't wait to pack up and fly to Europe to start a new life.

The two met at an academic exchange meeting, and both are theologians by profession, as the name suggests, they are experts in the study of religious myths and the like, and it is naturally difficult to mix in the great motherland where materialism reigns.

However, unlike those swaggering and deceitful gods, Zhang Heng's parents do have real materials, one of them graduated from Oxford University, majoring in Nordic and Greek mythology, and the other is a master's student at Durham University, who has published several papers on Christian mythology as the research object, and is said to be quite influential in the industry.

As a result, I couldn't get along after returning home.

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It happened that Zhang's father's mentor took over a big project, and he was short of manpower, so the two discussed it and threw Zhang Heng to his grandfather, and then patted his ass and started a research life all over the world.

After that, he basically only went home once a year, so Zhang Heng's childhood was spent with his grandfather.

may feel guilty in their hearts, but the two immortals don't owe this old and young in terms of spending.

Not counting tuition and accommodation fees, Zhang Hengnian's annual living expenses in college are 30,000 yuan, which is not as good as those rich second generations who drive sports cars, but it is already very good among ordinary students.

Back to the point.

The thing about the watch is quite weird, Zhang Heng woke up, and when he subconsciously planned to look at the time, he found that the scale on it had changed from twelve to twenty-four.

Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, and then calmly put the watch back in its place, covered the quilt and continued to sleep.

As a result, an hour and a half later, I texted my buddy in bed, and I regretted to inform him that Gao Shu had been named.

Not a dream?

Zhang Heng spent ten minutes washing up, sat in front of the desk under the bed, and turned on the computer.

He first boarded Taobao and searched for a double-scale watch, tricky, and the search results showed - sorry, no related treasures were found.

So Zhang Heng deleted the "trick" in the back.

Still no matches.

Isn't it a prank?

Zhang Heng touched his chin, if he didn't consider the inexplicable extra twelve scales, the time on the watch could be matched with the computer, and after careful observation, Zhang Heng finally confirmed that this twenty-four scale watch was the same thing as the starfish he had been carrying.

Including the scratches on the caseback and the folds on the strap, these details are certainly unknown to no one other than his original owner.

Of course, it is not excluded that some hardcore players can restore the details against the real thing, but who will have nothing to do when they are full, and do this for a prank, is it not good to go to the Forbidden City to repair cultural relics with this skill and spirit?

To sum up, Zhang Heng knew that something was wrong with him.

Ordinary people were scared to pee when they encountered this kind of supernatural phenomenon, but Zhang Heng was not an ordinary person, and he had to thank his pair of fairy parents.

People's parents are telling fairy tales about rabbits and little squirrels to put their children to sleep, these two are good, do not waste their professional knowledge, Zhang Heng fell asleep listening to Norse mythology and Bible stories when he was a child.

Although he himself eventually lived up to the nine-year compulsory education and became a glorious materialist, the foundation laid as a child is still there.

Zhang Heng's ability to accept this kind of thing is much stronger than that of ordinary people.

To use the concept in the popular board game "Call of Cthulhu", it is that his character's SAN value decreases very slowly.

Rather than fear, he became interested in what was happening to him.

A normal watch has 12 scales, and two turns of the hour hand on it represent the passage of a day, but now his 24-scale Xinghai in this global limited edition can complete a day in just one lap.

In this way, it doesn't seem to be a big deal, and it's even a little bit of a feeling after getting used to it.

But Zhang Heng believes that no matter who does all this, it will definitely not be as simple as just giving him a new watch face.

Intuition told Zhang Heng that the really interesting thing would probably not happen until the hour hand had completed a circle.

Now there are about 15 hours left before the end of today, and Zhang Heng certainly does not plan to be idle during this time.

I don't have to go to the high math class in the morning, anyway, I have been named, and according to the professor's rules, the final exam score will be automatically deducted 5 points.

This wave can't be saved.

Zhang Heng simply went to the playground to make up for the missing morning run.

The classmates in the class all think that this person is very godly, no one is happy to get up early after going to college, only this guy can insist on running in the morning, but he didn't sign up for the sports meeting, and he rarely participated in other collective activities, especially I don't like parties, but if you contact him, you will find that he is not as cold as he seems, on the contrary, this person is quite interesting.

Among the girls, there has always been a saying that Zhang Heng is versatile, and some people returned to school early during the holidays, saying that they saw him playing Paganini's large etude "Bell" alone in the piano room, which is a solo piano piece adapted by Liszt according to the theme of Italian violinist Paganini's "Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor".

Some people also said that they had met him to go to the archery gym to train when he was outside the school, and according to the boy who slept with Zhang Heng in private, this guy seemed to be a member of a climbing club.

These are all facts, but they are not true.

Zhang Heng is actually not as evil as everyone says, his morning run was forced out by his grandfather, and he didn't put it down after getting used to it, but his speed and endurance are a little stronger than ordinary people, and he can't compare with those specially recruited sports students.

Archery is something he has only recently tried to contact on a whim, and he has only taken three classes, which is barely a new entry, and rock climbing belongs to the kind of people who recede enthusiastically after registering and receiving a card, and break up peacefully.

The only piano he has been playing since he was a child, but the level is about eight or nine amateur levels, and the Paganini etude "Bell" was stored on his mobile phone and put it in the piano room to listen to himself.

Therefore, Zhang Heng, who is not an ordinary person, is actually not so ordinary.

He is quite interested in many things around him, but time is fair to everyone.

Whether you want to cherish it, intend to use every minute efficiently, or just want to collapse in bed and coss salted fish, everyone only has 24 hours a day to allocate.

Not a minute, no second, no less.

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