Flesh is frail; let the machines ascend. In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, radiation runs rampant, and Rust City lies like a dying beast, every inch of its land steeped in rot and despair. Su Yeyu and his younger sister, Xiaoman, struggle to survive in the slums, haunted by the human experiments conducted by Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals three years ago. Xiaoman's silver-ringed hair and the blue blood she coughs up are ominous warning signs.
The hunters from Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals catch wind of them and close in, the ouroboros insignia on their chests radiating a murderous chill. Just as all hope seems lost, the bronze pocket watch their father left behind glows with an eerie light. An ancient octopus emblem and mysterious cuneiform script awaken a mysterious power in Su Yeyu's right eye.
With their enemies in relentless pursuit, a mechanical Buddha rises from the ground, its electronic Buddhist chants imbued with the power of destruction. At this critical moment, Su Yeyu uses an unknown, mysterious ability to collapse the mechanical Buddha's energy core into a quantum state, and a blue-violet Goddess of Light butterfly emerges from its cocoon.
Yet this is only the beginning. Dimensional rifts quietly open, torrents of dark matter surge forth, and Hastur's Yellow Sign and a Necronomicon made of nanobots appear one after another. The Milky Way reflected in Xiaoman's eyes and the continual mutations in Su Yeyu's body both point to a buried, forbidden mystery.
As they flee across dimensions, can they escape the pursuit of Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals and uncover the truth hidden behind Rust City? And with the world on the brink of collapse, can they find a path to salvation for humanity?
