In the ninth year since the rifts appeared, the Nine Provinces monopolized awakening drugs. The only way for the poor to change their lot was to gamble with their lives.
Jiang Du lost his gamble.
His high school freshman assessment rated him F-rank, Tier One, with an affinity for spiders. Unwilling to give up, he worked and saved eight thousand yuan to buy a spider-silk drug. He got lucky and awakened, but his ability value was only five points. His spider silk snapped with the slightest tug, but he still refused to give up. He even tried to become Spider-Man. The line snapped, and he crashed into a trash can.
The next day, the nickname “Failed Man” had spread throughout the school.
Until he fell into the waste-liquid treatment pool at Factory No. 19. The pool was filled with the failed awakeners’ tainted blood and fragments from across the city. When he woke up, a great hall of bones had appeared inside him. A broken-horned mountain goat lay inside, and in the center stood a slot machine made of smashed bones…
