Parasitic Vision

In a border town in Yunnan during the rainy season, a seasonal delicacy called "Crystal Snail" is crisp, sweet and refreshing. When Lin Yuan, an outsider, took his first bite, he thought it was an unexpected treat during the journey. Seven days later, something that shouldn't exist began to grow under his skin - compound eyes that could see another world. That's not an illusion. It was an ancient existence parasitic in his body, and it was using his body to draw a map that led to a mass of things deep underground that had been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years. It requires three hosts. It requires them to become one. It needs a mouth. And Lin Yuan was the first piece of the puzzle it selected.