When the neon lights of the city tore bloody rifts at midnight, the heroes in mortal skins were falling one by one. Huang Jie, a former member of the special forces, has long been accustomed to using his mechanical eyes to scan for abnormalities in dark alleys. It wasn't until the first "self-healing firefighter" appeared on the list of victims of a serial murder that he realized that he was forced to return to the battlefield - this time it was not his country that he had to defend, but the "others" hidden in the crowd.
There is a secret hidden under the scalpel of forensic doctor Lin Yi. She could see the light particles remaining in the bones of the deceased. Those traces that were officially defined as "genetic mutations" were, in her eyes, the imprint of some ancient contract. When Huang Jie broke into the morgue with half a blood-stained scale, she was suturing a corpse with a black hole in its chest. The deceased's last words were exactly the same as the "accident" that devoured her parents twenty years ago.
In the shadows of skyscrapers, hunters in suits are calibrating genetic tracking bombs; deep in subway tunnels, mutated wanderers use tentacles to weave defensive nets; and on the big screen in the city square, a talk show host is laughing and joking that "people with super powers are all mentally ill." When Huang Jie's robotic arm got stuck in a heavy rain, Lin Yi handed over not only a wrench, but also an encrypted USB flash drive recording the "Purification Plan" - those beings called heroes had already been included in the elimination list.
They must find the last awakened person known as the "Seed of Fire" before dawn.
