Have you ever wondered what you would do if you had superpowers?
Esper abilities have never been gifts from the heavens. Every power comes with a price that is difficult to escape.
Chen Du, the sole survivor of Squad Zero.
Five years ago, a bullet infused with the power of a divine relic pierced his skull.
His brain’s memory center was damaged, and everything about Squad Zero was locked away in his mind. He scraped by at Bureau Seven.
His ability, “Echo,” lets him hear emotions left behind in the world. The price is that he permanently remembers other people’s despair, grief, and final obsessions, etched into his memory and never to be forgotten.
These agents are not omnipotent heroes. Their halos are an illusion. Their lives are filled with tedious assignments, workplace rules and restrictions, and sacrifices they have no choice but to make.
A conversation with Lu Zhen over hot pot shatters the long-standing calm in his life. Broken, jumbled fragments of memory surge into his mind, while his complete past remains trapped in his damaged brain.
He could have kept scraping by, pretending nothing had ever happened. But the Guixu Cult covets the divine relic, and danger is already closing in.
A cruel choice lies before him: go to Bureau Four and rely on Jianmu genes to repair his brain. When he recovers, all the suffering sealed away will return at once, leaving him no way back.
Knowing the price will be devastating, Chen Du still makes his choice.
After Bureau Seven completes its intelligence analysis, the “Monument Project” officially begins. He willingly takes on the shackles of a fate he could have escaped.
There are no rousing heroic anthems here.
Only a group of battered people, bearing a heavy price as they head into a confrontation with an uncertain outcome.
