In 2200, gods descended upon Earth like System patches.
They brought fire, prophecy, and immortality, on the condition that everyone sign an unreadable "soul contract."
Ninety-nine percent of the world's population became superhumans, and puppets on strings. Gu Yuan, a former quantum topologist and current fugitive, is the only living person who refused to honor the contract.
He cracked the underlying code of divine power: so-called miracles are merely interest, dressed up after Earth's energy has been siphoned away.
In thirty-seven minutes, the moon's core will be detonated, human civilization will restart, and the gods will depart laden with "fruits of cognition." All that will remain is one man, one battered spaceship, and a fingernail-sized chip.
This time, the prey will write the contract for the hunter. "If the gods are truly omniscient, they should have foreseen this:
I will turn their rules upside down and inscribe them on the universe's tombstone."
