In a world where evolution is the only power, Yang Shuo lives by one simple rule: never fight a battle unless you're sure you can win.
An orphan from Ash City, he's cunning and cautious, surviving at the bottom thanks to his extensive knowledge of biology. Then, among the ruins of the Old Era, he discovers the notebook of Lin Yuan, a giant in the field of biology: a data entity that merges with his body and grows over time.
From then on, he can see the flow of evolutionary information, calculate the risks of evolutionary paths, and trade knowledge for power.
But every calculation creates a ripple.
On the other side of each ripple is the gaze of the Calamity-class beast known as the Listener.
As the truth is gradually revealed, the sequences of the Five Great Conglomerates, the origins of human evolution, and even the Listener itself all point to the same being. Yang Shuo must decide: keep himself hidden, or step forward and write new rules for this world.
Evolution has no rules. Yet every evolution is a transcendence of life
