In 2077, rookie investigator Lin Xiaoman is assigned a bizarre case: a tenant in Room 404 of an urban village has vanished, and the teeth that spilled from a refrigerated suitcase bear her genetic code. As she digs deeper, she discovers that the entire city is a human futures exchange: superior genes are turned into aerosols and sold to advanced civilizations, memories are compressed into financial derivatives, and her iris is the key to triggering an interdimensional demolition.
The landlady’s rose tattoo matches the bloody message from an arson case twenty years ago, while a USB drive handed over by a mysterious undercover agent contains live footage of her being dissected. When the reflection in Chaka Salt Lake splits open an eleven-dimensional passage, Lin Xiaoman witnesses the most horrifying truth of all: every tenant whose lease she helped arrange has become a living holdout in the “Cosmic Demolition Agreement,” and humanity’s last asset to put up as collateral is hidden inside a womb-shaped starship…
