**“They say I'm a key that can open the Gate of God. But the door I want to open is the one to the cage that holds me.”**
**Bai Mu** is a boy who doesn't know where he came from. The moment he awakens, he discovers that he is the perfect creation of Project Watcher. His ability, “Mindscape,” can build bridges between minds, connecting all things regardless of distance. Planted in the federation's elite “Star Rail” squad, he becomes its seventh member.
The squad includes:
Lu Jingheng, a tactical mastermind as precise and composed as a machine.
Xie Yufeng, a silent but unbreakable wall of strength.
Jiang Chenle, the team's ray of sunshine, brightening every shadow with his smile.
Su Jianxue, an aloof beauty with a mystery beneath her icy exterior that has gone unsolved for seventeen years.
Lin Xingyao, a proud, chuunibyou heiress with a soft heart.
Ye Zhixia, a gentle gardener who can heal every wound.
At first, they are forced to accept this “parachuted-in” newcomer. But with one extraordinary “connection” after another, and by repeatedly saving his teammates from danger in desperate situations, Bai Mu lets this gifted squad, each burdened with their own secrets, experience the power of being “whole” for the first time.
Until they are ordered to investigate the cosmic calamity “Dark Surge,” which devours stars.
Until Bai Mu hears a call from a higher-dimensional consciousness in the heart of the calamity.
Until they discover that the entire mission, along with their meeting, is part of a conspiracy twenty years in the making.
**It turns out he isn't the key.**
He's the door.
