Spore Quarantine Zone: A Symbiotic Pact Among the Ruins

When the first hyphae sprouted from Lin Qi's fingertips, he was rebuilding the kindergarten where his daughter had vanished with mutated vines.

Reinforced concrete crumbled like dead leaves beneath clouds of spores. Only the blood-red vines surging from his palm could weave the ruins into the colorful castle he remembered, until poisonous dark green mist seeped through the classroom walls, and the truth about the mass deaths of 128 children twenty years ago awakened in the hyphae.

To save his daughter, who had strayed into the forbidden zone, the former ecological weapons expert swallowed a spore seed and gained the power to control plants. The price was that fungal spots bloomed with every drop of his blood. With Jun, a parasitic boy, he transmigrated across a moving carpet of mycelium. In cities conjured from spores, he witnessed the memories of the consumed floating like fireflies: an unopened birthday card in his daughter's schoolbag, the laboratory key his wife clutched before she fell to her death, and a gigantic, roaring reactor deep within the fungal core, stamped with the words HUMANITY ERADICATION PLAN.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.