At the final moment, with floodwater rising to her neck, Lin Wan saw her cousin flaunting a premium wagyu hotpot on her social media feed. Filled with boundless hatred, she was reborn 38 days before the disasters began. This time, she mortgaged everything she owned and frantically stockpiled supplies as the doomsday countdown ticked away beneath torrential rain: 200 tons of diesel, 1,000 boxes of compressed biscuits, military crossbow bolts, and Arctic thermal suits filled a 400-square-meter warehouse. She even froze Musang King durians to use as survival rations.
After seven days of rain, the temperature plunged to minus 50 degrees, and the city became a giant ice sculpture. When her cousin led a gang of thugs in kicking open the blast-proof door, Lin Wan aimed a crossbow at her throat. “Steal my food and die.” But the real danger was far beyond anything she had imagined. Mechanical warriors descended like reapers, their energy cannons punching through flesh. A ghostly blue mark suddenly appeared on her wrist, attracting unknown pursuers like a “beacon.” In an underground shelter, an old soldier named Zhao roared with his dying breath, “That light is here to collect a debt,” revealing the even more terrifying truth behind the apocalypse.
Alongside her only friend, Su Yue, she fled for her life through the frozen ruins, from a city swallowed by floodwaters to a graveyard of death trains buried underground. Billions' worth of supplies were her trump card for survival, but they also attracted covetous eyes. The mysterious mark pointed to Beijing, home of the “Beacon” exclusion zone and the source of every disaster. As extreme cold and mechanical hunters closed in, Lin Wan had to uncover the mark's secret before her supplies ran out and fight a bloody path toward the rebirth of civilization through a world of steel and frost. What she didn't know was that the ghostly blue light on her wrist had already marked her as the most dangerous “living piece” in the apocalypse's game.
