On the night a meteor shower struck the world, Shen Ye was working the night shift in an office building when the dead began to rise. As he fled, he discovered he could see colorful threads of light around the living, while the dead were surrounded by nothing but black mist. Zombies were entwined with eerie gray-white spiritual veins, and mutated creatures had patterns of their own. At a survivor base, touching the ancient jade his father had left behind granted him a cultivation technique. When a military broadcast announced the establishment of a “purification zone,” Shen Ye saw gray-white spiritual veins crawling all over the announcer. “There are no safe zones in this world,” he said, gripping the jade tightly. “Only spiritual veins never lie.”
