On rainy nights in New Kowloon, the air is always filled with the smell of engine oil and rust.
Qin Lie is an out-of-control gun, and she is a bounty hunter who roams the bottom of the walled city. 40% Of her body's prosthetic transformation gives her the power to tear steel, and it also puts her on the verge of mental collapse at all times. Whenever hallucinations came flooding back, her only thought was destruction—until she pushed open the door of the underground clinic.
Wen Yifan is hiding the knife in the ruins. This cold and ascetic black market doctor holds the only source code that can restrain Qin Lie's madness.
"My medicine is very expensive, Miss Qin." Wen Yifan pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and pressed a chip glowing with blue light into the hot socket on the back of Qin Lie's neck. "Since you can't afford the credit, then leave everything to me. Your pain, your pleasure, your desire to kill... From now on, I will take over."
Qin Lie knelt in front of the operating table, like a tamed beast, and kissed the doctor's cold fingers tremblingly. She was willing to wear the collar just to seize the only salvation in the endless abyss.
Concept: The story deconstructs "salvation" in the traditional sense through the setting of "animal tamer and beast". Wen Yifan's "taming" of Qin Lie was not to transform her into a "normal person" that conforms to social norms, but to accept and tolerate all her madness and darkness. What she gave Qin Lie was not a cure, but a possibility of symbiosis. Qin Lie's "salvation" did not mean returning to the light, but finding the only place for her broken soul in Wen Yifan's "cage" tailor-made for her. Ultimately, what this novel wants to express is: the real salvation may not be escaping from the abyss, but finding the person in the abyss who is willing to sink with you and can read all the love from your scars. In a world where the boundaries between humanity and machinery are blurred, love has become the final proof of its own existence.