Synopsis
While the whole world awakens supernatural abilities, he chooses to embrace pollution.
The third spiritual qi revival arrives. Chen Mo fails to awaken, but binds himself to an eerie System: [The Wasteland Exchange]
Others cultivate with spirit cores. He relies on industrial exhaust, radioactive dust, and heavy-metal toxins.
On his first exchange, his lungs turn to metal.
He becomes the only monster that feeds on pollution.
While superpowered people fight for spirit cores behind towering walls, he walks out of the city gates. The heavily irradiated zone that has been shrouded in radiation for thirty years is his paradise.
But every exchange takes him one step further from being "human." Mechanical ascension, the frailty of flesh, silicon-based evolution... What lies at the end of power?
And what truth is hidden behind the so-called "spiritual qi revival"?
This is a story about power, its cost, and the choices we make.
