In the gloomy urban shadow of the near future, Qi Yue, a crazy experimental subject implanted with mysterious blue crystals, feeds on pain and takes pleasure in self-abuse. His body can regenerate indefinitely, but each healing requires more extreme pain to catalyze it. Licking the blood of superpowers, devouring the beating heart, dissecting his own nerves... He explores the essence of power on the edge of self-destruction.
When he discovers that the blue crystal in his body is connected to the secret of the "Seventh Research Institute", his memory begins to collapse - the words in blood appear in the mirror, the seven hearts arranged in the refrigerator, and the second hand flowing backward in his right eye all remind him: he is not a human being, but a failed container called "Q-13".
In order to pursue the truth, Qi Yue took the initiative to fall into a deeper abyss of pain. The deadly potions sold by black market merchants, the quantum bullets of the time police, the gradually mutating barcode under Lin Yuqing's collarbone... All clues point to a twisted truth: *Pain is the key to evolution, and he is just the most pious martyr** in this sacred suffering experiment**.
When the last piece of flesh and blood is swallowed by the blue crystal, Qi Yue must choose - to become a perfect and painless "god", or to retain his humanity and sink into the pain hell forever?
