Introduction to the novel "Tiehen"
The moment the cooking table pierced the belly of the salmon late at night, apprentice Chen Nuo's taste and destiny mutated at the same time - indigo blood, metal plaque, and a right hand that could hear the heartbeat of the deep sea. It all started with the rusty bronze key hidden in the fish's gills. The fleshy track of the subway tunnel squirms in the moonlight, peony shrimp sashimi grows in the throats of VIP diners, and the keyhole mark on the back of the missing waiter's neck drags him into the abyss called "Gourmet Club."
The back kitchen of this Michelin three-star Japanese food restaurant is connected to a transportation network darker than cold chain trucks: mutated mushrooms eat up the railway tracks, the artificial leather carriages wrap the death tickets of diners, and the boiling soup in the bronze cauldron is filled with the secrets of prehistoric civilization. When Chen Nuo discovered that his blood could condense into star sand locks, those bronze fragments swallowed by the top rich were summoning a huge mouth from the ground to swallow the city.
In this city where taste buds are a curse, bacon made from the human body is sealed in plastic wrap, brains are flowing through surveillance cameras, and the clicking sound of rusty spoons is the final countdown to whether to become a predator or to become the seventh hot dish - the lost "Tiemen" chapter of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is revealed. On tonight's menu, civilization and madness are slowly simmering together.
