In 2035, in the fictional country of Assala in North Africa, the village of Gula in the Hadab Mountains was reduced to scorched earth overnight.
Carey Anderson was the only survivor. Wasim Rashid, the scientist who escaped from the capital, inserted an unfinished second-generation enhanced injection into his neck and was swallowed by a collapsed stone beam. When Carey woke up, there was a circle of light blue light on the edge of the iris of his right eye - he could "see" computing power from now on: those blue threads hidden in chips, brain computers, and Mandel bricks, covering the world like blood vessels.
