The global sea level has swallowed up 99% of the land. The last refuge of mankind is the five thousand "Noah's Ark" floating on the endless ocean. Each Ark is a miniature steel society with strict hierarchies, where rank is destiny.
Lu Jin lives in the C-17 area at the bottom of the "Kunpeng" Ark. The air here is filthy, there is no daylight, and the non-stop waste disposal is accompanied all day long. The only things that survive are sticky protein paste and bitter seaweed chunks. He struggled here for twenty years, more than seven thousand days and nights, living like a rusty gear, silent and precise.
This is a cruel survival game played in a steel cage without the smoke of gunpowder. His goal is clear and crazy: not only to survive, but also to climb up the icy stairs of this huge ark until he reaches the unreachable top, to control his own destiny, and even... The course of this ark.
Looking up from the abyss to overlooking all living beings. This is no fairy tale, but a journey to power that begins with betrayal and hunger, and ends with wisdom and ruthlessness.
