In a near-future wasteland, young Lu Zhao carries a bronze compass into the forbidden zone of the lunar eclipse. But a deadly alarm sounds in an ancient laboratory when he triggers a rift in space and time. The silver-haired girl who awakens in a cultivation pod bears the same barcode on her neck as he does, while his pursuer’s vibranium dagger can tear reality apart. These killing machines, all wearing his face, are mass-produced defective prototypes from the “God-Making Project” of twenty years ago.
His father’s surviving lab journal reveals the bloody truth: the so-called time-sand crystal ore is the quantum-state essence of his mother, Su Li, who is trying to delay the world’s crystallization and fracture. And every time Lu Zhao dies, he feeds awakening energy to the “Silver Moon” hanging high in the night sky. When his awakening level surpasses the 37% threshold, his compound eyes pierce the dimensional barrier, and he discovers to his horror that he is nothing more than the protagonist in the 169th reboot written by the web novelist Lin Shen.
