A blood-red rift tears open the sky, as the cataclysm of the “Five Signs of Decay” devours civilization.
Particles of decay erode everything. Mutated monsters roam the ruins, and humanity plunges into the abyss of despair.
Zhang Ruosu, an ordinary archivist protecting his frail younger sister, awakens a forbidden power that can reverse life and death amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Death stills beneath his fingertips. Wherever entropy decreases, decay comes to a halt and wounds freeze in place.
But the price is that his own cells wither faster. His black hair turns white, and his life slips away like sand.
To find shelter, he is forced to gather the last remnants of humanity:
a brutal special police officer whose flesh has been transformed into steel, a medical student fighting a parasitic fungus for control of his body,
a hacker driven mad in the depths of cyberspace, and his younger sister, who can hear plants lament but suffers backlash from her gift.
Their powers are blades with which to fight the corrupted world, but also poisoned blades pointed at themselves.
