In the 107th year of the wasteland calendar, after the pale rain washed the world, only a thick lead color remained that could not be dissolved.
Spores are parasitic in the decaying urban skeleton, and the haze covers the earth like a shroud.
Lu Chen, a scavenger at the bottom of Rust Town, rummaged through the quagmire for the remnants of the old civilization.
Here, a piece of hard black bread can change a life, and a tube of expired nutritional ointment is all the hope of survival.
Until that day, he dug out a mechanical pocket watch from the ruins that had been dormant for hundreds of years.
When his fingertips touched, the dead gears started turning again in his mind——
[Resonance of Old Things] allowed him to see the memory of steel.
He saw the watchmaker's pious assembling in the sun;
He saw the final fight of the elite soldiers in the trenches;
He saw the old world that was buried in darkness and full of light and warmth.
In this man-eating wasteland, Lu Chen tightened his grip on the heavy machine gun made of scrap metal, his eyes as calm as the abyss.
"I never yearn for the false sunshine in the barrier, I only believe in the cold oil and gears in my hands."
This is a journey that begins with picking up trash and is about survival, resilience and the rekindling of civilization.
