[Keywords] Cyberpunk | Class Barriers | Prosthetic Modification | Hardcore Combat | Bottom Counterattack
Introduction to the work
The Tianhe River has been flowing for thirty years and never stops for anyone.
An eight-hundred-meter-wide dividing line stretches across the center of the city—the North Shore is neon all night long. The powerful wear 30 million-dollar anthropomorphic prostheses, and their fingertips can feel the temperature of their lovers. There are mountains of scrap iron on the south bank. Wang Zheng used a rusty hydraulic arm to lift 300 kilograms of steel ingots, but he couldn't hold a water glass. His life is simple: stay alive, save enough to synthesize protein for tomorrow, and avoid being killed in a turf war.
Until that burning night.
The corpse of the uprising leader was hung on Tianhe's giant holographic screen. The South Bank fell into fighting again. In the raging fire, Wang Zheng saved a dying woman.
She comes from across the river. The youngest prosthetic scientist on the North Shore, because he refused the unspoken rules of power, had his right arm removed, his left eye gouged out, and he was thrown across the Milky Way like a piece of discarded experimental supplies.
Before she died, she inserted her memory chip into Wang Zheng's brain-computer interface.
A massive amount of knowledge poured in like a dam bursting - the combat parameters of prosthetic limbs, the blocked scientific truth, the bloody history of two generations of idealists who sacrificed their lives for "equality", and a deadly secret about Tianhe.
A porter's mind contained an arsenal.
But he hasn't even learned how to hold a cup.
The rules of South Bank have never changed - those who are not ruthless enough will not survive tomorrow.
"They say the rivers of heaven flow and order endures.
I'll show them--
One day, the Tianhe River will dry up from its south bank. "
