On the night of Shanghai’s 2087 Neural Roaming Festival, as holographic fireworks burst across the sky, repairman Lin Jin discovers that his spare phone has split open into a mouth that devours sound. The next second, the Bund’s clock tower turns into a hundred-eyed stone gargoyle, and the financial district becomes a “Debt-Sin Behemoth” of rolling stock tickers. An age in which all things turn into monsters has arrived!
To save his sister Lin Wan, infected by monster blood, Lin Jin carries a bronze USB drive, which is actually the key to Di Xin’s Twelve Monster Coffins, and ventures into the Hongkou black market. There, he encounters Shen Ling, the cold and contemptuous leader of the cybernetic bodyguards. “Want to save her? Become half-monster first!”
When Qin-dynasty law bricks beneath the Huangpu River awaken the ancient bloodline within him, and monsterified washing machines and drones unleash a finger-devouring frenzy, Lin Jin finally understands: the counterfeit blood seeping through cybernetic steel is part of a wager between Di Xin and the First Emperor, three thousand years in the making!
Will he rewrite the age with the blood of an emperor, or become the next spawn of the monster calamity?
