During a laboratory accident, gene editor Chen Mo watches DNA strands spontaneously assemble into Cthulhu runes. He is then implanted with the “Taixu Zero” System and swept into a battle for survival spanning reality and virtuality. His genetic code is both the key to opening the “Star Abyss Gate” on the far side of the moon and humanity’s last line of defense against the Cthulhu god-corpse. From a data-stream corpse king on the Yuan River in western Hunan, and the bloodstained genealogy of the Xuanjian Immortal Clan, to consciousness splitting inside the metaverse and observers hunting in the real world, Chen Mo traverses infinite-flow trials and interdimensional conspiracies, gradually uncovering the secret of his parents as “gene renegades.” They had once implanted “Human Rage” in his genes, the only weapon against the god-corpse’s “absolute rationality.”
When the globally livestreamed “God-Corpse Birth Ritual” begins, when readers’ comments in the metaverse take form as data monsters, and when the council of higher-dimensional observers beyond the Star Abyss Gate reveals itself, Chen Mo must choose between “becoming a vessel for Cthulhu” and “protecting humanity’s free will.” He turns his genetic code into a greatsword blazing with blue and gold flames and cleaves open the divide between reality and virtuality, only to discover in the final chapter that the entire world is merely an “observation experiment” conducted by a higher dimension, and that readers in the real world may also be part of this game.
A mad collision between cyberpunk and Cthulhu Mythos, a final reckoning with genetic technology and the essence of humanity. As data streams and tentacles shudder in unison, who can escape this cycle of “god-corpse cultivation” spanning 137 generations?
