Perilous Road to Doomsday

A child sails across the deep sea; a blind man stands at the edge of the abyss. The most dangerous thing in the world is to do something beyond your control. The same is true of humanity’s fate.

By the time Yu Jiang understood this, he had already spent many years stumbling through this murky world. He had never done anything remarkable as a child, and the university he attended was nothing special. After graduating, he ran into one dead end after another, and his many dreams gradually faded with time. His resentment and regret became nights spent wide awake, then vanished in one cheap cigarette after another. Only much later did Yu Jiang realize that the insecurity brought on by blow after blow from a cruel fate had been a gentle form of protection.

If the world had remained as it was, he would eventually have grown old and died an ordinary man. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. A cosmic signal transmitted using super-gamma radio technology turned the entire human planet into the private territory of extraterrestrial intelligent life. The “Ascension Serum,” designed using the genetic template of carbon-based life and released onto Earth, plunged the planet into Hell Mode and ushered in the apocalypse.

Years later, Yu Jiang had finally evolved from a lowly cockroach into the “Doomsday Menace,” a being whose very name made the ancient aristocratic Hamz Blue family of the Virgo Supercluster blanch: an uncontrollable anomaly, a dangerous Super-S-class life-form that even Overlord-class warriors could not face alone, and an enemy of the Virgo Supercluster capable of bringing about the end of the world. Of course, the Blue Star people, long oppressed as slaves, call him something else: Saint Michael.