In the vertical city of Tartarus, which resembles a vast, bottomless well, technology branches out wildly amid despair. The stench of spliced mutant organs hangs over the lower levels, where flesh modification is the poor’s only chance of survival. In the middle levels, the megacorporation Noah Life uses gene editing to shape “perfect” aristocrats. At the top, the Pure Machine Council pursues a cold mechanical ascension that abandons the flesh. Lin Jin is a doctor whose chest houses a military-grade mechanical heart, yet who survives by stitching together mutant organs. He struggles to stay alive in a garbage dump on the lowest level. Then a sudden “Fusion Disaster” shatters the fragile balance: a deadly flesh plague spreads, mechanical bodies run amok, and the gene-edited twist into grotesque forms. The disaster forces Lin Jin to climb upward, through flesh factories and corporate strongholds, all the way to the city in the sky. He encounters a tyrant who worships “fleshly evolution,” genetic aristocrats who control the code of life, and mechanical fanatics bent on “pure ascension.” Lin Jin gradually discovers that the secret hidden in the icy heart in his chest may be the ultimate key to the disaster sweeping the abyss. As the boundary between flesh and machine collapses completely, Lin Jin stands at the crossroads of the abyss: will he become the final plague that destroys everything, or the one spark that ignites a new era amid the chaos? Blood and Silicon: The Abyssal Era is a dark epic exploring technological corruption, the essence of life, and the struggle of human nature.
