He’s wanted by the police, yet he’s their only undercover agent. He carries a blood debt, yet discovers that he’s at the heart of the mystery. Chen Shou, a “good-for-nothing” expelled from the police academy, is forced to accept a deadly assignment: infiltrate the vast Lin Group crime syndicate as a “criminal.” To rescue his sister, Chen Yu, who has been taken hostage, he must walk the line between law and crime, using even harsher methods against the true villains.
But the deeper he goes, the more monstrous the truth becomes. Routine debt collection through violence, bloody initiation rites, live organs kept in cold storage aboard a deep-sea cargo ship... At the heart of this layered web of evil lies a genetic-engineering conspiracy twenty years in the making. The vaccine known as “XC-12” offers no salvation. It’s a deadly weapon designed to control human consciousness. More despairing still, Chen Shou himself is the first successful subject of the “Hunter Project,” and Lin Xiao, the enemy he’s been pursuing, may share his blood.
As a countdown begins to the contamination of the world’s water supply, his most trusted mentor is revealed as the mastermind, and his only surviving family member becomes the key “antidote” to unlocking his genes, Chen Shou must make a choice before he sinks beyond redemption: become a “god” of genetic evolution, or, in his mortal body, ignite a fire that will burn away every last sin?
