The Gene Cage: Heartbeat Deals with Eighteen Pairs of Safety Shorts

In 2077, when 90% of the world's population had biochips implanted, Zhou Dapeng, CEO of Xingyao Technology, carried the ultimate secret of the genetic lock in a mysterious barcode chip on the back of his neck. One stormy night, after rescuing Gu Xiaoqiao, who was wearing strawberry-print safety shorts, his chip suddenly deciphered a dangerously suggestive code. The trim of her safety shorts and the tattoo on her lower back were both living keys to opening the Guo Group's genetic laboratory.

With the appearance of Gu Xiaoqiao's clone, the truth exploded like a pop-up on a chip: the eighteen heroines whose genes resonated with his, from the fishnet-stocking hacker Su Yubai to the guqin player Gu Wangsong, were all products of Guo Fengda's "genetic vessel" project. The fluorescent reagent in Mu Wanqing's mechanical spine transformed the patterns on their safety shorts into passwords for a prison of consciousness, while Guo Xue's consciousness lay parasitically deep in the gene pool, waiting to seize the perfect vessel.

"Mr. Zhou, your heartbeat is more honest than the barcode on my safety shorts."

"I'll use my heartbeat to write code for freedom for all eighteen genetic vessels."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.