In a world destined to be priced, how can we live a life that cannot be priced?
If money is the poison of civilized society, then the gold-eating beast that was the first to taste the poison - will it be a sacrifice that dies of poison, or will it be the only hope to find an antidote?
Ji Hulin, 28 years old, is a programmer. His greatest achievement in life was surviving in Shanghai—until the early morning of that overtime day when he received a text message:
"The balance of your account ending in 9988: [¥-∞]"
At first he thought he had encountered the worst fraud in history, until the ATM machine downstairs started spewing out banknotes, each one burning with blue flames in his eyes; until he found a luminous brand on his wrist, and his stomach was filled with hunger for money; until a group of men in gray who called themselves "Scavengers" wanted to physically erase him as a "system error".
He was forced to swallow gold bricks from a dusty underground vault, in exchange for the strange power surging in his body, and a cold "Stardust Pledge Contract": within 30 days, if he eats enough "money", he will be "forced to liquidate" by the system and disappear completely.
He became a gold-eating beast!
An alien struggling to survive in the shadow of the modern financial system, a monster who must eat money to survive.
And this world is far crazier than he imagined...
