Thirty-two years old, unemployed, driving for a ride-hailing app, fighting for even the two a.m. fares.
He thought this was all life had in store for him.
Until a streak of black light poured into his body, and he ripped a car door open with his bare hands.
In this world, only those born with abilities can awaken them. Everyone who awakened later was killed, their bodies stuffed into an underground laboratory under the codename "Zero."
He was the first to survive.
The black market put a price on his head. The Anomaly Control Bureau hunted him down to register him. Dingfeng's assassins wanted his blood.
And the man at the very top of Dingfeng watched his footage with trembling hands, because he, too, had awakened later in life. He had burned himself out with drugs just to claim his position.
Lu Chen didn't need to.
The Zero Project never ended. The people who were taken away are still alive.
He will get them out. He will make everyone who said "impossible" swallow those words.
