My name is Lin Mo, an E-class dishonest person living at the bottom of the city. For me, "living" is a mathematical problem that needs to be calculated every day. The nutrition block with 0.4 Credits can keep me going through 12 hours of hunger; the odd job payment with 21.3 Credits is enough to cover the air purification costs for me and dozens of people in the welfare home for a week. I'm used to silence, used to bowing my head, used to compressing all my desires to only the three words "live".
They say hard work can change your destiny. But here, hard work will only make you saddle with heavier debts until you are completely crushed.
I thought my whole life would be like this, until a forgotten code turned me into the only "parasite" in the city.
A "ghost" lived in my body, and it taught me how to transform the coldness of steel into the heat of survival. I began to "eat" railings, walls, ruins... And eat the world that imprisoned me. I didn't think about resisting. I just wanted to use this power that no one knew about so that my family and I could survive tomorrow with a little dignity and as a human being.
