[Hard Sci-Fi | Wasteland Heroine | Interstellar Fate and Reincarnation]
In 2088, a free brain-computer interface plugin distributed by the lunar base secretly carries mutated brain-eating parasites. Eighty percent of humanity becomes a pool of computing-power batteries, keeping a Dyson sphere running.
To earn the credit points promised by the Moon, people turn on one another and lose themselves in the frenzy of dreams of sudden wealth.
Wen Xiangnuan, a survivor at the bottom of society, has no choice but to hunt mutants for their plugins, saving up credit points to renew the medical brain-computer interface that keeps her paralyzed mother mobile.
Just before she reaches her target, the Moon's mechanical army launches a surprise sweep of the surface, turning the world into a slaughterhouse in an instant.
She escapes with her mother into the underground city everyone longs for, only to uncover the cruel truth: the powerful harvest the genes and living organs of the poor. The tragic past of her ancestors' CRISPR-modified twins also comes to light. Together, they peel back layer after layer of the Moon's enormous lies and glimpse the ultimate secrets of the stars.
The truth is that this vast starfield is nothing but code written by a Level Seven civilization. There are no alien races in the universe, only humanity's endless cycle of turning against itself.
Though mortal flesh is powerless to shatter the closed loop of this predetermined cycle, Wen Xiangnuan still grips her fire axe and breaching pick, rising in a small but unyielding rebellion against the cold universe that controls the fate of all living things, for the sake of the only family she has left.
