On National Day in 2025, a meteorite fell in the Mariana Trench, kicking off the end of the world. Alien "symbiotic spores" have swept the world. After a 72-hour incubation period, humans face the fate of manic out-of-control and permanent alienation - the alienated people's bodies crystallize and gain superpowers but lose their minds, while only 3% of the immune people have to lose their senses in exchange for "symbiotic evolution."
Chen Mo, a deliveryman and former veterinarian with a broken arm, witnessed the first case of alienation while delivering orders. He accidentally awakened "Pathogen Resonance" under the mechanical prosthesis and could see through the concentration of spores and the fatal points of the alienated person. He originally wanted to be a lone wolf in the apocalypse, but he encountered the shadowy respiratory doctor Su Wanqing one after another (who can delay alienation), the former special soldier Wang Lei whose left arm turned into a crystal battle ax, and the e-sports anchor Zhou Xiaoyu who uses game thinking to formulate tactics (can hack into all electronic devices).
The Church regards the spores as "marks of the chosen" and wants to kill those who are immune; the Twilight Sect attempts to accelerate alienation and restart the earth. From the abandoned pet hospital in Binhai City, to the prehistoric virus reservoir under the Siberian ice sheet, to the alien mothership on the back of the moon, this incomplete but tenacious team must not only fight to the death against the aliens, but also fight for their way out of the competition for resources and power conspiracies.
Are spores the poison that destroys civilization, or the key to evolution? When the controllable evolution agent triggers an ethical frenzy, and when the truth of the alien seeding plan emerges, Chen Mo must make the ultimate choice about the direction of human civilization between "purification and extinction" and "symbiosis and rebirth."
