Embers of a Star Eclipse

A meteor falls, a violet moon rises, and civilization collapses overnight. Xue Gang, a teacher in the mountains, is fleeing through the apocalypse when alien knowledge surges into his mind, a mysterious Dawn Mark appears on his chest, and the System awakens in his moment of desperation. With the power granted by the mark and the System, he hunts mutated monsters and unravels the secrets of energy, carving a path to survival through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Pursuing the faint hope contained in his grandfather's dying words, he leads the survivors aboard the Xuelong and ventures toward Earth's last forbidden zone: Antarctica. Beneath the ice sheet lie the alien civilization's abandoned Zero Outpost and the Key of Order, which can reverse the corruption. But the source of the corruption at Earth's core launches a dying counterattack, while the main guns of a powerful enemy in the stars have locked on. Facing ultimate destruction, Xue Gang burns himself as fuel, forging with his life, the System, and his companions' will a final blade to strike into the sea of stars. He wagers humanity's last sunrise on it.