In the tenth year of the Crimson Corruption's assault on civilization, geneticist Ling Yi is swallowed by the tide of mutation at the very moment he uncovers the ultimate secret of the Abyss Virus.
When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself back in his laboratory, twenty-four hours before the disaster begins.
Sunlight fills the windows, and the world is peaceful. The news is full of trivial celebrity gossip, and his colleagues are still arguing over a paper about to be published. No one knows that a crimson catastrophe, one that will overturn the established order and reshape life itself, is about to descend when the bells of April Fools' Day ring.
This time, Ling Yi is no longer a survivor barely clinging to life in the apocalypse.
He is the only one who knows what's coming, a “prophet” who understands the virus's evolutionary path.
In his previous life, it took him ten years to see the Abyss for what it was. In this life, he will take it by the throat himself.
While everyone else fights over a piece of bread or a bottle of clean water, Ling Yi has already set his sights on the sources of evolution that will one day command the elements. While the major factions are still trying to figure out how to fight corrupted creatures, he is already using his knowledge to guide, control, and even... create them!
“The apocalypse you see is my laboratory.”
“The monsters you fear are my test subjects.”
“I, Ling Yi, will rebuild this broken world in my own way.”
This is the story of a calm, rational scientist who, in an apocalypse of despair, takes knowledge as his weapon and the whole world as his chessboard, planning every move until he becomes the one who sets the rules.
