In the third year of Linzhou's lockdown, genetic aerosols turned the entire city into a huge, festering petri dish. Those who inhaled it lost their minds, had deformed bones and flesh, and turned into aberrations that only knew how to kill. A few resistant people suffered from insomnia and phantom pain, soberly heading towards premature aging. The outside world claimed that this was a natural disaster, but in fact the survivors in the city were all observation samples for in vivo experiments. They were acquiesced by the superiors and secretly promoted by the scientific research team, waiting for the complete deformation of human beings.
Lu Yanzhou went to the city alone to find out the cause of his sister's death. He is loose-spoken, heartless, and has a pure and kind background. He is only partial to one person and loves to the end.
That person's name is Shen Yan. Pale, thin, gentle and quiet, he is recognized by the whole team as the cleanest, most fragile and most in need of protection. But as crises come one after another, he can always accurately predict and avert danger in desperate situations. Those sharp edges that are deliberately hidden are like undercurrents under the ice, faintly revealing a heart-stopping sense of oppression.
Intention: In the absurd siege, reshape human nature with a clear sense of pain.
When survival is reduced to a carefully calculated experiment, when "saints" actually commit massacre in the name of mercy, the real salvation lies not in overturning the wall, but in refusing to become a numb sample in a petri dish. Shen Yan's "sin" and Lu Yanzhou's "love" are essentially rebellions against this extreme absurdity - the former protects the bottom line of human nature with self-imprisonment, and the latter proves the incalculability of emotion with unconditional preference.
What this work ultimately wants to explore is: in a dead city where everyone can be alienated, defined, and sacrificed, only those who dare to maintain the pain in despair and stick to their true hearts under disguise can truly get out of the siege that traps their souls.