When the foundation's high walls collapsed and the disasters it contained polluted the world like ink dripping into clear water, the "Rust Garden" became one of the rotten purgatory. Twisting thorns consume steel, gray-purple miasma erodes sanity, and deadly anomalies wander in the shadows.
Lu Chen, a survivor struggling on the verge of doomsday, only relies on the "safe house" buried deep underground. The thick alloy gate, the self-circulating life support system, the hoarded supplies... This is the island where he lives in this corrupt land. He carefully calculated every resource and was alert to every unusual noise outside the house, just to survive.
However, the cataclysm never stopped encroaching. The safehouse's walls groan under the power of corruption, as a deadly threat breaks through the last line of defense. In his desperate resistance, Lu Chen himself became a victim of the mutation - his flesh and blood coexisted with rusty thorns, his right arm turned into a ferocious weapon, and his mind was filled with cold whispers. The safe house that once sheltered him was reduced to scorched earth due to his out-of-control "Annihilation" ability.
Falling from the safety of an isolated island, he became the "Lord of Thorns" in the corrupt jungle. Lu Chen dragged his half-human, half-monster body, struggling on the edge of madness. He hunts threats and is coveted by even more terrifying beings. A "cryogenic fragment" from the ruins of the foundation, a fleeing survivor, and a piece of incomplete data pointing to the legendary last refuge "Ark"... Led him deeper into the fog.
Is the road ahead an "ark" of hopeless hope? Or will he completely sink into the nourishment of this "rust garden"?
