In a world where everything is destined to have a price tag, how can you live a life that cannot be priced?
If money is the poison of civilized society, then will the Gold-Devouring Beast, the first to taste its toxicity, become a sacrifice who dies from the poison, or the only hope of finding an antidote?
Ji Hulin, 28, programmer. His greatest achievement in life was managing to survive in Shanghai, until one overtime night, he received a text message:
“Your account ending in 9988 has a balance of: [¥-∞]”
At first, he thought it was the clumsiest scam in history, until the ATM downstairs started spewing banknotes, each one burning with blue flames in his eyes; until he discovered a glowing brand on his wrist and felt a hunger for money churning in his stomach; until a group of gray-clad men calling themselves “Cleaners” tried to physically erase him as a “System error.”
He was forced to swallow gold bars from a sealed underground vault, gaining a strange power surging through his body and a cold “Stardust Collateral Agreement”: within 30 days, he must eat enough “money,” or the System will “forcibly liquidate” him, making him disappear for good.
He became a Gold-Devouring Beast!
An outcast struggling to survive in the shadow of the modern financial system, a monster who has to devour money to stay alive.
And this world is far crazier than he ever imagined...
