In the wasteland world after the “Great Annihilation,” crimson auroras tear through the sky screen. The “Blight Tide” sweeps in with mutated monsters, devouring every trace of life. The surviving humans can only migrate and struggle to survive in steel convoys on cracked highways.
Ye Feng, an ordinary mechanic who earns his keep with a wrench, awakens a mysterious sequence in a desperate situation: the drive shaft has snapped, and the convoy is about to be hunted by “Sandstalkers.” His profession is No. 073, the “Blade for Hire,” and he gains the ability of “Metal Animation”: using mental power to reshape metal, turning scrap into blades and getting broken axles moving again.
From the “Nightclaw Beasts” that raid at night in the Gobi Desert, to an abandoned gas station hiding metal relics, to the “Oasis” base concealing a conspiracy by the “Crimson Church,” Ye Feng grips a blade reforged from scrap and struggles forward through an apocalypse where humanity and bestial nature are intertwined. He must contend with the claws and fangs of mutated monsters, guard against the greed of other convoys, and uncover the connection between the “Blade for Hire” sequence and the truth behind the “Great Annihilation.”
This is a struggle for survival with metal for a blade and the highway for a grave. As rusted iron comes “alive” in his hands, can he use this “blade” to cleave through the darkness of the wasteland and carve a road to hope for his convoy?
Sequencers are extraordinary beings in other books, but in your book they are like mice and everyone yells and beats them up 🤦.