When humans sacrificed Li Zheng to the brain symbiote in order to survive, he retaliated by eating his brain and regaining control over his nerves. Su Jin lurks in the dark, hoping to use him as the key to restart the human neural network. The mute mother's reverberating prophecy and Iron Bone's mechanical holy remains become the fulcrum of the game between the two parties. And Cicada's dream is quietly awakening the first-generation command body sleeping deep in the earth's core. This is not rebellion, it is the birth ceremony of a new god.