The city stayed up all night. It runs on an energy source called "green energy" - clean, cheap, and nearly inexhaustible. Green energy comes from luminous stones dug out of the ground. No one has ever asked what these stones are or how they are produced.
Shen Linyuan just wants to be a transparent person. He is a delivery rider and has a sick mother at home and a younger sister who is waiting to pay school fees. It wasn't until a mining accident that the things sealed in his body awakened - he could see the light flowing in the Qingneng pipe, and he could blow away a steel beam with his bare hands. Then the men in gray uniforms arrived. They call this "mutation" and it needs to be registered and treated.
Lin Wanzhou is a top scientist in the field of green energy. The teacher disappeared for three months, leaving only a blood-stained notebook. The last page said: "The structure of the green crystal seems to have been woven stitch by stitch by someone. Energy has a source, but we have never asked where it comes from."
One escapes, the other pursues. When they encountered the same truth one after another, they discovered——
Every kilowatt-hour of electricity they burn is stepping on the corpses of the catastrophe three thousand years ago. The deeper they dig, the faster the sleeping things wake up.
