On both sides of the boundary river, neon lights and beast roars have never truly blended together.
When Lin Yan broke into the gray zone with a forged identity card in hand, all he could think about was his abducted Omega-level brother - in the human world, intelligence level is a natural shackle, and Omega's life is as cheap as dust. He hated the "Bloodfang Tribe" orcs who bought his brother, and believed that as long as he followed the rules and climbed up, he could always get justice.
Until he bumped into the young man covered in blood.
The broken chains of the iron cage were wrapped around his wrists, the green and black scales pierced the skin, and the dragon horns at the tail vertebra were tearing apart the fabric - the awakening of the bloodline of the star core-level beast race was enough to make the human intelligence core tower tremble. But this "beast" that was supposed to be overlooking all living beings was on the run just like him. The hatred in his eyes was directed at both the guns of the Black Alliance and his compatriots who had abandoned him.
"Your brother and my enemy are both in the cage of the Black Alliance."
When the electroshocks of the beta-level humans collided with the electric light of the star-core orcs, and when the sewage on Rustleaf Street was mixed with the blood of the two races, they discovered that the so-called rules were just a game for high-level people. The cry of Ω was as harsh as the wail of star chips, and what broke the shackles was perhaps the bond that grew out of hatred and belonged to neither cyber nor the forest.
The cage made of steel bones cannot trap the beast's blood, just like the boundary river drawn by prejudice, it will eventually be trampled by those who go against the current, and their clenched palms hold the only key to breaking the shackles: it is not the crushing of intelligence and blood, but two broken souls, finally finding their complete selves in each other's scars.
Purpose: The work mirrors the dual oppression system of the human intellectual class and the orc blood level, and uses the bond between the two protagonists from hatred and confrontation to breaking the situation side by side to tear apart the hypocritical veil of "innate superiority" - whether it is the intellectual label of human society or the blood shackles of the orc world, they are essentially tools for the higher-level to maintain their rule. In the collision between cyberneon and forest wildness, the story asks "what is equality": the real breaking of prejudice does not lie in denying differences, but in seeing that every soul (whether a human or a star-dusted beast) has a dignity that cannot be priced; the true awakening of power does not lie in the hardness of steel bones or the purity of animal blood, but in the mutual redemption of two broken individuals across ethnic groups, growing the courage to fight against the entire unfair system. Ultimately, it points to the belief that "rules are made by people and broken by people": when the oppressed no longer trap themselves in labels, when hatred gives way to empathy, boundaries can be leveled and shackles can be broken, every life should have the right to define itself.