Survival in the Apocalypse in the Forest

When the surface is covered by "red tide" creatures that can devour everything, humans retreat to underground shelters to survive. Lin Ye, the patrol leader of the seventh district, loses his comrades in a defense line collapse and witnesses the fall of his homeland. Unexpectedly, he holds the key coordinates pointing to the energy core - a low-temperature weakness that is fatal to the "red tide" and the last hope for human civilization's comeback. Taking uninactivated biological samples and clues to the energy-depleted escape cabin, he shuttled between the broken shelter and the scarlet-spreading surface. He not only had to avoid the hunting of the "red tide", but also beware of betrayal and suspicion among the survivors. From the ruins of District 7 to the mysterious "Ark" base, from a single low-temperature confrontation to the discovery of alien signals hidden behind the "red tide", Lin Ye gradually uncovered the truth of this apocalyptic crisis: the so-called "natural disaster" was actually an interstellar experiment that lasted for thousands of years. As more and more survivors join the team, some fight for protection and some turn against their own desires. Lin Ye must make a choice between saving humanity and revealing the truth - should he destroy the energy core and perish together with the "Red Tide", or should he risk using alien signals to find the possibility of two civilizations coexisting? Under the scarlet dawn, every step is on the edge of life and death, and the future of mankind is hidden in the terminal held tightly in the forest and the never-extinguished flashlight beam.