When radioactive clouds tore away the last sliver of sunlight, scavenger Lin Jin dug a glowing crystal from a heap of mutant corpses.
Its blue light could make rotting flesh reborn and restore dry bones, but hunters from the steel fortress high above had already sensed the energy fluctuation.
With gangs on the ground closing in and lasers pursuing him from the sky, he clutched the crystal core and raced toward the legendary Valley of Deathlight, said to devour all things. Behind him, three hundred refugees were paving a bloody trail with their lives.
This escape would eventually reveal the truth: the so-called apocalypse was nothing but a carefully crafted…