When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. But what if you were the abyss itself?
In the neon-lit foggy city, shadows walk in the glass of skyscrapers, and whispers seep out from ancient bronze mirrors.
My name is Shen Ke, and I used to be a criminal police officer until I witnessed a murder case that "should not exist".
There were no organs in the dead man's chest, just a squirming mass of darkness, and it whispered to me: "You are the same."
My neck has since cracked with black lines - they are the mark of "pollution" and a countdown to madness.
I was taken fifty meters below the surface to the "Thirteenth Bureau", an organization that houses unspeakable things.
Here, madness is a contagious disease, superpowers are curses, and sanity is a consumable.
My partner Lu Yao is a scavenger with cracks on her right arm. Her knife can cut off pollution, but it cannot cut off 99% of her own pollution value. We are all walking on the edge of a cliff, the only difference is who falls first.
I could see the black cracks spreading across other people's bodies, and the countdown to death above their heads.
They say I am a "naturally resistant person", the last bridge between anomalies and humans.
Until I met the silver-haired girl who called herself "sister". Her whole body was covered in cracks and her pupils were pure purple.
She said to me: "Brother, we are monsters. Why pretend to be human?"
The Great Old Ones are about to come, and the world is on the verge of collapse due to pollution.
And my choice will determine everything: should I protect this world that will eventually be destroyed as a human being, or should I embrace the abnormality in my body and become a god in the new world?
