Stars in Junkyard

For three hundred years, humans have huddled in the last barrier city, relying on the silence field to isolate the soul-eating beasts. Those translucent spirits are pervasive and disappear wherever they meet. No one dares to ask: Where do they come from? Seventeen-year-old Lin Yuan never asked these questions. He was a garbageman in the lower-class area. He counted the rations every day to buy black bread. When the soles of his shoes were worn out, he would tie them up with wire. Until he picked up a dark metal plate in the garbage - two words were crookedly engraved on the back: Lin Yuan. That's what my mother left behind. She was taken away by the Ministry of Truth five years ago and never came back. That afternoon, a young soul-eating beast emerged from under the conveyor belt. It didn't attack him, it just stood two steps away and looked at him quietly. Lin Yuan threw the board over by mistake. The board flashed. The soul-eating beast disappeared. From then on he was targeted. The Ministry of Truth ransacked his home and took away his mother's last iron box. And that little soul-eating beast climbed onto his window sill in the middle of the night and lit up his mother's video: "Xiao Yuan, don't be afraid of them." Three hundred years ago, the elites of the old world launched the "New Eden Project" to use genetic weapons to eliminate the so-called "defective people". The Soul-Eating Beast is not a monster, but a twisted guardian. The fortress city is not a refuge, it is the largest cage. When the truth is pieced together from the garbage heap, and when the pursuit of the Ministry of Truth gets closer and closer, Lin Yuan must make a choice: continue to hide in silence, or walk out of the city wall and face the fog that looks at him from two steps away—— It came to him. It has been waiting. The humblest corner hides the brightest light. This is a story about picking up stars in the trash.