In the depths of the cold starry sea, you and I are both birds in a cage.
They call themselves ZE. A name is the shadow, a symbol is the scepter. Their territory stretches across the stars and rivers, and their will is as cold as the dead sky. For the earth and mankind, we are not subjects, allies, or even enemies——
We are just numbered "guinea pigs."
My name is 7658, which was my prison number. In the huge tomb-like experimental base code-named Area B of ZE Company, the cold metal pipes are my cradle, and the scarlet failure warning light is my common "moonlight". I am one of thousands of codenames, but I am called - "the only one" by a desperate doctor.
He said that there were fragments within me that could tear apart reality. He said that the possibility of overthrowing the gods was imprinted on my body.
But the shadow of ZE Company goes far beyond just one B-area. Its shadow casts over the entire universe. Their technology, which transcends human cognition, can play with dimensions at the palm of their hands, and can erase traces of a civilization like dust. They see us as free guinea pigs, a colony of bacteria that flickers briefly but is destined to die out.
Die? It was just a quiet end in the experimental record book.
The doctor gave me a task, a fire that is as small as dust but heavier than the stars. For it, I escaped from the ruins of Area B and stepped into the scorched earth eaten away by the power of ZE.
Disaster is their company. Resistance is my only number.
