A meteor shower brings life from beyond Earth: an alien fungus capable of transforming humans into units of a collective consciousness.
Humanity calls it the Hive.
The old order crumbles under the Hive’s onslaught, and the survivors build fortresses against the apocalypse, known as Arks.
Ji Qixing has known since childhood that she is not quite like everyone else.
She is a highly intelligent sociopath, and for more than ten years she has pretended to be normal.
Before they disappeared, her parents encoded the means to fight the Hive into her genes. She is the only one who can sense the Hive’s signals, and the only one capable of breaking into its network.
But the organization keeps her abilities firmly shackled. They need her power, yet stand ready to destroy her the moment it becomes necessary.
For the sake of her gravely ill grandmother, she accepts those shackles.
After a serum injection awakens her supernatural abilities, she is assigned to a team of volunteers with special powers.
As she carries out one mission after another for the organization, she gradually discovers that its so-called plan is nothing but a scam. Trapped between the cracks, she scrambles to secure leverage of her own.
From a pawn of the organization to the one moving the pieces. From a monster pretending to be normal to the judge who decides what “human” means.
There is only one thing she intends to do: expose this prison called the Ark, from the inside out, and tear it apart completely.
