Lin Mo, a monster hunter, is a creature who stalks the darkness.
He brews liquor with the blood and flesh of strange beasts to suppress the bestial nature boiling inside him;
he slays demons with bullet time, yet cannot cut off the hive's whispers from the mother organism.
Amnesiac, despondent, living like the walking dead...
Until one rainy night, a drenched girl tugged at his sleeve:
“Please... take me in.”
Su Li, a “soft-bodied” test subject who escaped from a laboratory.
She can squeeze through gaps just ten centimeters wide, yet cannot escape the cage of human hearts;
she is like a piece of rubber, molded and kneaded by anyone, yet she burned through the ice around Lin Mo's heart.
As Lin Mo dried her long hair and shared a bed with her,
a communicator belonging to the Shadow Organization flashed in the rain:
“Test Subject No. 4 successfully deployed... Human nature anchor, implantation initiated.”
Beneath the illusion of calm, the truth bares its fangs
The hive mind roars inside his head, urging him to “return to the hive” and devour everything;
the girl in his arms is a pawn of the organization, meant to lock away the last of his humanity;
and beneath the Antarctic ice, the mother organism's wails are actually the cries of someone's fiancée...
When the conspiracy behind Project Arc Light is exposed,
when Su Li, who “cures” him, the mind-reading girl in a wheelchair, the rampaging telekinetic boy...
all the people dearest to him turn out to be “emotional weapons” used to control him
Lin Mo tightens his grip on his saber and faces the blood-red sky:
What does it matter if he has to make an enemy of the world to protect them?
