Chen Mo, a disgraced advertising director, awakens to a bizarre power on a rainy night: tear up a deceptive ad, and he can absorb the emotions of the masses as “pseudo-spiritual energy.” Dark red markings spreading across his arm are the brand of contamination, and a bloody severed-arm murder at a convenience store reveals the gruesome truth behind urban cultivation. Hunted by corporate interests and watched by the Stability Bureau, he launches a live-streamed gambling game at the haunted Panshan Mansion under the name “Cocoon”: 99 soul contracts, leading straight into the terror of the abyss. Blood and fire temper his bones at the Salvager’s Hut. What burns away is only the fuse. The true source of contamination is awakening in the fleshly vortex of Panshan Mansion...
