The Grip of the Stars

In 2157, on a Martian colony, miner Qi Yue accidentally touches an alien relic known as “Prometheus’s Grip.” His right hand fuses with a mysterious metal and mutates. As the alien substance inside him continues to consume his body, he discovers that he is the “key bearer” chosen by an alien civilization a million years ago. Lin Yutong, an agent of Earth’s Security Bureau, is ordered to hunt down this “high-risk mutant,” unaware that alien genes forcibly implanted in her flow through her own body as well. When the two discover during their pursuit that the “Seven Circles Society” has long been secretly controlling their fates, they must join forces to uncover the ancient secret beneath Mars: the alien collective consciousness known as the “Watchers” is waiting to awaken, and human civilization is merely the vessel it has chosen...