Reverse Scale

Introduction to the novel On the ninth floor underground, the SSS-level dangerous experimental subject "Ni Lin" sleeps in an incubator. He is the pinnacle of the military's genetic engineering - a fusion of the scales and brute strength of an apex predator, born to be a weapon. All the researchers who approached him were either dead or disabled until Shen Huai appeared. Shen Huai is the youngest chief researcher in the base, rational, restrained and professional. He walked into that cage with data and tranquilizers, thinking he could hold all the boundaries. But Ni Lin's first words when he opened his eyes were: "Aren't you afraid of me?" There was no killing intent in those golden vertical pupils, only confusion. Shen Huai began to send him nutrient solution every day, taught him how to speak, and told him what the tree looked like. Ni Lin used aluminum pipes picked up from the corridor to bend out a "forest" just to let Shen Huai look at the outside world for a while. He hid the little man painted by Shen Huai under his pillow and repeatedly traced the outline of the man wearing glasses late at night. They are separated by their identities as experimental subjects and researchers, by the boundaries between humans and non-humans, and by the destruction instructions that may be issued by the military at any time. But when Ni Lin trapped Shen Huai in his arms and said in a hoarse voice, "You have studied me for so long, it's time for me to study you" - all the rules were falling apart. This is a domestication that started in a cage, and it is also a reverse scale made of bones and blood. When the whole world wanted to destroy him, only Shen Huai painted a tree for him. And when Ni Lin finally breaks through the shackles, the first person he wants to protect is the human who taught him to "live". You name danger after me, I name heartbeat after you. Concept: The concept of "Reverse Scale" is rooted in a core question: When human beings use technology to create a life beyond themselves, how should we look at him? Is it a weapon, an experiment, or a being who has the right to be loved and seen? Ni Lin has been deprived of his "human" qualifications since his birth. His scales are evidence of guilt, his claws are tags, and every breath he takes is converted into a threat factor. But Shen Huai's appearance opened this rift - he squatted down and looked straight at the golden vertical pupils, he explained the shape of the "tree", and he put the paper with the little man on it into the other's palm. This series of gentle "translation" behaviors actually tells Nilin: before you were created, there was already spring in the world. What Nilin gives back is something more primitive and pure than any genetic sequence: loyalty, attachment, and the awareness to restrain instinct in order to protect a person. He used aluminum tubes picked up from the corridor to create a forest look, and he hid Shen Huai's name in every heartbeat. When the whole world was using shackles to measure his danger radius, only Shen Huai used his palms to measure the temperature of his forehead. This novel explores the double meaning of "taming"-human beings think they are taming beasts, but in the end they are tamed by beasts in an older way. Identity is a prison, but love is the opposite. When Ni Lin finally broke through all physical shackles, what he broke into was actually the entire system's judgment of "others". And Shen Huai stood beside him, telling the world with a mortal body: You define him as danger, I define him as a heartbeat. This is a story about how monsters possess humanity, and how humanity is willing to become a haven for monsters. Underneath the scales is a heart warmer than any human being.