Number Zero: the Thread Controller

He could see the soul threads connecting all things - but his own thread was held in the hands of a dead man. When Lin was eighteen years old, he was pushed into a pond, drowned and then came back to life. When I woke up, the pond was full of dead fish turning white, and three corpses were floating on the water. There was a piece of metal in his palm, which felt hot every night. From that day on he knew two things: First, there is a thread on the top of the head of every living thing in the world, which leads to an unknown place. Second, his sister has dozens of them on the top of her head. One is the Silk Controller who came back from the dead. One is the eighth gene carrier spanning ten thousand years. As the Reapers in deep space begin to close their nets, the two most dangerous people on Earth—are a brother and a sister.