When Lu Ran awakens from a genetic modification pod, his left arm has mutated into a Zerg weapon capable of devouring anything. In this rusting universe ruled by deep-blue technology, the so-called “flame of civilization” is nothing more than a lie used to turn living people into weapons.
Armed with the star-sea umbilical cord his adoptive mother, Lin Xiaoman, gave her life to obtain, he is forced to struggle for survival between flesh and mecha:
• Devouring Evolution: Zerg genes grant him the ability to consume enemy technology, at the cost of gradually losing his human mind
• Tombstones of Civilization: The ruins scattered across the stars conceal truths that have been erased, and every totem pattern is a living genetic lock
• Twin Fates: A clone of the deep-blue mastermind, a prisoner of consciousness from the first humans, the blood-red dawn of the mutants...
• The Lie of the Flame: A genetic pact spanning two hundred thousand years, in which every salvation is a carefully laid trap
From rusting mechanical planets to Zerg hives, from seas of consciousness data to the jump points between parallel universes, this is a war destined to be fought alone. When mecha devour the last patch of sky, will those who survive still be human?
