City of Time: Falling into the kill zone at the start

In 2371 AD, two hundred and ninety years after the end of the global nuclear war, Lu Chen awoke from a slumber of over three hundred years, only to find that only one city remained in the world—the City of Time. Here, everything is measured in time. The wages earned from work are time; the expenses for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are time; even parts of the human body are priced in time. Time is currency, and it is also lifespan. When time reaches zero, life comes to an abrupt end…