Age of Mortals

Sun Fan, an ordinary author of online essays, was awakened by a loud noise on an ordinary night in 2020, and found that he had traveled 80 years to 2280. This future world has fallen into an energy crisis due to population explosion. Humanity relies on dangerous "nuclear energy conversion energy" to maintain energy supply. However, radiation pollution has quietly distorted life - plants have withered and blackened, residents have accelerated aging, and even symptoms of mass dementia have appeared. When protests forced a hasty relocation of the factory, a devastating explosion tore the world apart. When Sun Fan woke up from the chaos, he was faced with twisted "living dead" all over the street. Trapped in an apartment with few resources, he only used his peephole to see a terrifying creature with a gray face and an inverted head. At the moment of life and death, a weak Morse code distress signal came from upstairs. A rope message in the dark connected his destiny to the dying librarian Luo Yue. In order to find a way out, Sun Fan took the risk and sneaked into Luo Yue's room, but learned an even more horrifying truth. The apocalypse was caused by the leakage of nuclear energy. The figure of the mysterious classmate Equation in Luo Yue's memory, as well as his prophetic calmness, identity as a police officer and bizarre experiences, seem to hint at the unfathomable conspiracy behind the disaster...