Awakening from the Dust: I Lead Humanity's Resistance in the Apocalypse

Gray fog descends, and the world falls apart. The Awakened stand high above everyone, regarding ordinary people as dust; the Eroded roam the wilderness, becoming fear itself. Lian Tian is just a poor, short, and unimpressive young man at the bottom of society. After being scratched by an Eroded, he doesn't mutate. Instead, he gains the ability to “disguise” himself, at the cost of his lifespan. He rescues A Chen, an orphan girl who can survive in the gray fog zones, and gathers the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled who have been cast aside. On the ruins, he establishes the “Gray Market”: here, there are no special powers, only trust; no hierarchy, only trade. By the time the Awakened discover this “kingdom in the dust,” Lian Tian has already used the very “ways of the world” they look down on to weave a web spanning the apocalypse. And the truth behind the gray fog is far more shocking than an “alien invasion”: this is a selection process that has lasted tens of thousands of years, and he intends to lead humanity off the board.