A company called Colorstone launched a gene-completion program called Mending the Heavens, seeking to fill in the missing piece in the human genome, "immortality," absent for billions of years. In seeking to touch the taboo of immortality, it pried open the Creator's door. The chain reaction turned Y City into a living hell. Was this epic disaster divine punishment, or the inevitable distortion brought about by human greed?
Through multiple perspectives, this book gazes at the spectrum of human nature amid the ruins, while keeping its central focus on Cheng Cheng, an ordinary 35-year-old auto mechanic. When disaster tears apart his everyday life, he is forced onto a brutal journey beyond imagination, dragging along a left arm that has been infected by monster blood and is gradually mutating. From a fugitive struggling to survive to an extraordinary figure caught in the heart of the storm, he will face one hellish trial after another amid the awakening of supernatural powers, betrayal, and sacrifice.
He and his comrades cross mountains of corpses and seas of blood, eventually drawing close to the intersection of the disaster's ultimate truth and his own fate. When the "scales of destiny," which will determine everyone's life or death, are placed before him, what choice will Cheng Cheng make upon reaching the summit? Will he embrace his power and become a new "god," or use what remains of his humanity to find a fragile path to redemption for a world destroyed by greed?
The answer lies in every choice he makes.
