When your legs turn to scrap, your will can forge you a pair of steel feet!
This isn’t science fiction. It’s a desperate fight for survival, written in flesh and steel!
Zhang Liguo, a gifted young prodigy who was supposed to become a star of mechanical engineering, loses the use of both legs in a conspiracy. Cast out by his family, he ends up on the streets. Just as everyone expects him to rot in the mud, a mysterious meteorite from beyond the stars becomes his last lifeline.
“Symbiosis” isn’t evolution. It’s a bargain with the devil.
He uses the meteorite to power his machinery. Every time he “stands,” he coughs up blood and burns away his life. Hiding in a drainage tunnel, he assembles scraps of hope for revenge and the chance to stand again from parts salvaged from a junk heap, all while hunted from the shadows. Xiaomei, gentle yet resilient, is the only light in his dark world, but because of him, she too is dragged into this mad experiment in death.
The forbidden gates of “Laboratory Seven” swing open, awakening a dormant “extraterrestrial organ.”
Qin Chuan’s merciless pursuit, Gu Yuexuan’s mysterious schemes, the shocking truth behind Lin Wei’s death... This is no mere escape. It’s the ultimate gamble over consciousness, evolution, and the meaning of human existence. As the boundaries of “symbiosis” break down and flesh begins to merge with crystal, Zhang Liguo must face not only his shattered body, but also the self being devoured by an increasingly “inhuman” power.
Tomato’s most hardcore sci-fi and wasteland-survival novel of the year!
Here you’ll find the unquenchable glimmer of humanity in the direst circumstances, the most passionate bonds beneath a sci-fi exterior, and thrilling battles of wits and desperate counterattacks. Follow Zhang Liguo as he uses his broken body for an anvil and his will for a hammer, amid pursuit, betrayal, and mad technology...
