In the third year after the virus tore open the veil of civilization, Wen Jianxue awakened his dual powers when he burned his sister's mycelium cocoon with his own hands - the moonlight rose that heals all living beings, and the emerald mycelium that catalyzes mutation.
When the man who called himself Shen Tingbai used an ice edge to cut open her crystallized spine, revealing the cervical vertebrae embedded with meteorite fragments, Wen Jianxue realized that this encounter was an elaborate rebirth ceremony. He is the scavenger of the TS-09 project, and she is the living culture medium numbered E-017. Behind them, in the abandoned shopping mall full of human-faced mushrooms, hangs the last fig leaf of human civilization.
"What is flowing in your veins is not hope, but spores that are older than the virus." Shen Tingbai wiped the hyphae from the corners of her lens, and the poison needle of the pocket watch quenched the cold light in the moonlight, "But if the crown of thorns needs blood to be watered -"
Wen Jianxue broke the ice on his neck and pierced his heart, and the hyphae and roses grew wildly in the fused blood to form the Tower of Babel. When the doomsday bell rang again, they finally saw clearly the lines on each other's palms: it was the dirtiest contract in the new era and the gentlest murder before dawn.
Purpose: To reshape the backbone of civilization amid the collapse of order. In the darkest abyss, the glory of humanity will always be more dazzling than superpowers.