Nut Gourd

In Oasis City, where technology has advanced to astonishing heights in the year 2245, a “Nutmelon” with gear-patterned skin and jelly-like motor-oil flesh quietly shatters the city's peace. When Lin Xiaoman inexplicably takes a bite of the strange fruit, it not only causes electronic devices across the city to fail, but also turns him into a “carrier of genetic contamination” hunted by authorities. Imprisoned by an interstellar agricultural company, he discovers that the Nutmelon is actually a secret weapon for clearing the ruins of old colonies, and an unexpected biological fusion reaction forges a mysterious bond between him and the fruit. As the Nutmelon's vines grow wildly, Lin Xiaoman's body gradually turns mechanical, bringing the truth about a 21st-century bioweapon hidden behind it to light. Thus begins a sci-fi adventure about the ethics of technology and the struggle to survive.