In 2077, the Tianyuan Federation's "spiritual recovery" is nothing more than a parasitic scam by alien civilizations - the rich use spiritual vein loans to monopolize resources, the poor rely on mortgage genes to survive, and the so-called "immortal cultivation" is just the beginning of alienation by the entropic erosion virus.
Lin Shen, a gene hunter with a debt of 300,000 spiritual vein coins, wears a rusty mechanical suit on the left side of his face, and a cheap spiritual vein detector in his right eye. The countdown to his mother's freezing chamber is ticking. He must hunt down high-level mutant beasts within 48 hours, but when he is about to die, he awakens the "anti-entropy spiritual root" that can swallow other people's spiritual veins. This power is both salvation and a talisman. Every time he uses it, his body will have an additional petrified line.
The mysterious symbiotic partner Su Li has the number of a federal agent hidden in the robotic arm; the black market doctor Wang Laizi, whose prosthetic eyes are actually the product of his father's experiments; and Chen Mo, the director of the Spiritual Vein Administration Bureau, is using the "National Spiritual Vein Donation Plan" to cover up a conspiracy to transform slums into "entropy erosion farms".
When the "first-generation spiritual pulse key" in his pocket watch glowed red, and when his mother's "experimental subject number" surfaced, Lin Shen discovered that the so-called "efforts to get rid of poverty" were just a game played by alien civilizations to keep humans in captivity. And his anti-entropy spiritual root is not only the blade that breaks the prison, but also the blood that must be sacrificed.
This is a story about "the more you struggle, the more you sink" - when hard work is priced and life can be mortgaged, can we still hold on to the last glimmer of humanity in a world of increasing entropy?
