Continue Human Civilization

After human civilization self-destructed due to the 100th World War, was forced to undergo genetic modification, and wandered among the stars for thousands of years, the universe followed cold steel laws. Cai Shan, a woman who retained "extra" emotions and a soft heart due to incomplete genetic modification, was exiled to the "Rust Land" on the border waste star as an "inferior product". Resources are scarce here, and the weak eat the strong. It is a purgatory where human exiles struggle to survive. Her core motivation is simply to survive and protect the only remaining companions around her who still retain the warmth of humanity. A twist of fate comes during an alien raider attack. Ling Jin, the empire's youngest iron-blooded marshal, passed by here in pursuit of an old enemy's fleet. Amidst the ruins and artillery fire, Ling Jin witnessed Cai Shan bursting out with incredible courage and tactical wisdom in order to protect the elderly, weak, women and children, with a body of steel far inferior to ordinary people. What shocked him even more was the vivid emotions in her eyes that belonged to the "old humans" that he had long since disappeared from the nobles and soldiers of the empire. An unexpected rescue caused two galaxy trajectories that could never have intersected to collide.