Rusted Totem

"If perfection means death, I would rather embrace an imperfect life." In 3177, after maintenance worker Du Huaizhou awakened the mechanical beast Bai Ze, he learned that his father had become the pain nerve of the earth's veins. He discovered that Martian civilization had formatted itself by eliminating all pain, and humans were at a crossroads of choice: pursue a painless paradise, or embrace the painful reality? He chooses to translate pain, treasure mistakes, and find the resilience of civilization in imperfection. This is a chronicle of learning tenderness on the rusty ruins.