When amber pupils light up in the dark alley, humans finally pay the price for their arrogance in playing with genes. In the autumn of 2035, a virus codenamed "Blood Plague" leaked from a biological laboratory and swept the world within seventy-two hours. Acid rain corrodes not only the steel forest, but also the last vestiges of morality in the civilized era.
When medical student Lin Shen woke up in the morgue, blue-purple crystals were spreading crazily in the wound on his right arm. He held a scalpel and passed through the inpatient department where mutated plants were thickened, only to find that the most deadly thing was not the sharp teeth of zombies - but the poisonous buds of human desire that breed in desperate situations. While other survivors were still fighting for cans and clean water, he had glimpsed the key to evolution from the crystal remains of intelligent zombies.
The fire-controlling ability awakened by devouring crystals burns out the first glimmer of survival in an abandoned shopping mall; the scientific research base entwined with mutated vines seals the last data log of the mentor before his disappearance; the base known as the "Lighthouse", the last pure land of mankind, the mechanical prosthetic eyes of the people in power reflect the bloody transactions. And whenever he cuts open the blue lines on the back of the infected person's neck, he can always hear strange whispers in the void, as if a pair of eyes is watching this doomsday carnival through the acid rain in the sky.
This is an evolutionary competition where flesh and blood dance with crystal core. When Lin Shen finally cracked the genetic code in the crystal, the shocking conspiracy buried deep in the source of the virus slowly surfaced: the so-called doomsday catastrophe was just the first spark of fire cast by a higher civilization. And all the creatures struggling in the blood rain are becoming the nourishment for the birth of a new era...
