The Year of Rusty Bones

Seven years ago, red mist engulfed the world and "rusted" humans into metal monsters. Lin Rust lost his daughter in the disaster, but received a curse - a semi-metallic arm that can hear the "singing" of the earth's core. Seven years later, he is the cheapest guide in the gray zone, with a conversion rate of 37% and two years of sobriety left. Until the dismantling engineer A Ruo brought a half-pipe of inhibitors and a "talking" radio, leading him deep into the mist - Area Zero, the womb of the earth's consciousness. The truth is scarier than the apocalypse: the mist is the synapse, the rust corpse is the neurotransmitter, and the earth is in labor. Lin Ruo's daughter was the first "bridge" to wake up in a cocoon for seven years, waiting for her father. When the cocoon pulsed in the core of Steel Forge, and when the conversion rate exceeded 70%, Lin Xiu finally stood in front of that huge existence that was both a mirror and a newborn: "You can choose to devour us, but then you will always be just 'us'. Let me teach you, let me be your father." This is a hard-core science fiction about doomsday, transformation and rebirth. There is no savior, only bridges - between metal and flesh, between destruction and rebirth, those who choose to be the connection. "Welcome to the Age of Rust. This is not the end, this is a shared childhood."