In 2035, Lin Qiu, a senior high school student, witnessed the physics formula mutate into the Cthulhu mantra in class. As the mysterious system awakens, he discovers that the so-called "revival of spiritual energy" is actually the harvesting process of advanced civilizations - the earth is the cemetery of the universe, and humans are just sacrifices for the resurrection of the old gods.
With the star core imprint on his left hand and a countdown prosthesis installed on his right kidney, Lin Qiu struggled to survive in the cyberpunk Yunhai City. Mutated classmates, mechanical Buddhas, and quantum ghosts attack one after another, and the most deadly crisis comes from the time paradox: seventy-two of his clones lie in the bronze coffin under the Antarctic ice; on the hospital operating table, a one-eyed doctor writes his organ transplant records in Shang Dynasty oracle bones.
When the blood moon engulfed the seventh city, Lin Qiu finally saw the truth of reincarnation: the "1999 Antarctic Scientific Expedition" that his parents participated in was actually a suicide attempt to seal the old gods; Su Xiaowan, his childhood sweetheart, was the only immortal to escape the closed loop of time. In order to end this civilizational sacrifice that spanned five thousand years, he must make a choice - use mechanical ascension to fight against the Cthulhu Mythos, or turn himself into a candle to rekindle the human fire.
