Beneath the blood-red moonlight, seventeen-year-old Lin Jie, a fishing village boy, found his own corpse lying on the beach.
When a rusted cargo ship disgorged a frozen chamber overgrown with bronze moss, and a gray wolf that spoke human words developed a metallic gleam in its pupils, he realized the entire fishing village had been dead for years. The blood of the woman mending nets flowed with emerald liquid; the old fish seller's fingers had grown encrusted with verdigris; even his mother, whom he remembered drowning herself at sea, had become an apparition rising from a tumor of flesh on the ocean floor.
To unravel the mystery of his origins, Lin Jie and the mysterious boy Number 000 embarked on a perilous voyage. Deep in a cave lay an altar piled with infant bones. Bronze coffins engraved with his name floated on the seabed. And the mackerel-shaped birthmark moving across his chest turned out to be the seventh seed of poison, one that devoured human nature.
As the memories of forty-seven clones ran wild in a downpour, and the mother who had gestated the catastrophe revealed her true form in the eye of the storm, Lin Jie gripped the rusted silver key. This forbidden object, capable of unlocking the cycle of reincarnation, held humanity's original sin at one end and the final twilight of civilization at the other.
In these bronze-ravaged waters, every wave carries a tampered childhood, and every drop of seawater reflects a different way to die. But the real nightmare has only just begun, now that a fish tail has emerged from beneath “Mother's” white coat.
When your heartbeat resonates with the bronze at the bottom of the sea, how can you prove that you are not the catastrophe itself?
