Lin Wanxing, a medical university student, awakens a blood-clotting ability amid a zombie horde. The blood seeping from a birthmark on her shoulder blade can harden into blades. When she discovers that the drug injected into her mother before her mutation matches her own genes, she is forced down a dead-end path in pursuit of a genetic experiment conducted in the South China Sea twenty years ago. Human faces grow on rotting ears of wheat, shrieking. Warlords with steam-powered prosthetic limbs covet her mutated spinal cord, while cultists carve blood-vine totems identical to her birthmark at every place she stops.
Dragging a homemade bronze plow through the zombie hordes, she breaks new ground and cultivates crimson wheat seeds using zombie ashes. Yet she has no idea that beneath the fields she has watered with her own hands lies the corpse of an experimental subject with DNA completely identical to hers. This apocalypse is nothing more than a grand hothouse built to awaken the “perfect creation.”
