Stardust Embers: Heart of the Machine

The cold culture fluid soaked her broken body. When Lin Wei opened her eyes in the ruins of the abandoned star field laboratory, the only thing that proved that she was once a "human" was the mechanical heart in her chest that replaced flesh and blood and shone with a faint blue light. The memory has been formatted, the identity has become a mystery, and only the remaining fragments deep in the heart prick the nerves: a betrayal, a devastating "star disaster". Is she an orphan from the old federation? Or a defective product from a forbidden experiment? Or... Was it the disaster itself? In order to pursue the truth, she must go deep into the Death Star Realm occupied by the Light Eaters, walking through radioactive dust and twisted metal. Her traveling companion is Zero, the most dangerous "ghost" mercenary in the Federation, a contradictory person who regards her as both a tool and the biggest mystery. And her enemy is the unknown existence that swallows light and civilization, the dirty secret hidden deep in the Federation, and the mechanical heart in her body that is sometimes cold, sometimes hot, and seems to have independent consciousness. When the cold metal begins to sense temperature, when the forgotten past turns into a deadly blade, when the mechanical heart beats for her at a frequency beyond the program... Lin Wei will understand that in the dark forest of the universe, the deepest despair often breeds the most dazzling sparks. And is she the fire that ignites hope, or the ember that burns everything down?