The Star River Defense Line: Bloodbath at the Alien Hive

In 2187, humanity discovered samples of an unknown organism beneath the Martian ice sheets. Seven days later, the Mars colony went silent.

When the rapid-response unit led by Marine Lin Zhan arrived, they found a living nightmare. Buildings had been eaten away by some kind of acidic slime, and human remains had turned into bizarre crystals. Most horrifying of all, the “corpses” that should have been dead were reassembling into new and terrifying forms.

This was humanity's first contact with the Zerg. Able to consume organic matter and evolve rapidly, this alien species breached Mars's defenses within three months. When the first Zerg bio-ship appeared in Earth's orbit, humanity finally understood: this wasn't a chance encounter. It was a death sentence.

In this war for the survival of the human race, Lin Zhan grows from an ordinary mecha pilot into the central commander of the human alliance. He leads a joint force of psychics, mecha warriors, and space fleets into battle against the Zerg across every front in the solar system. From Mars's deserts to Mercury's seas of lava, from Uranus's deep oceans to Neptune's frozen wastes, every battle rewrites humanity's fate.

But the most dangerous enemy may not be out among the stars. It may lie within the human heart. When Lin Zhan discovers that the Zerg may be intelligent, while humanity's leaders are secretly developing a “doomsday weapon,” he must make a choice: eradicate the threat completely, or seek a way to coexist? In this dark universe, hope is like a spark, and he will be the one to set the world ablaze.