Blue Star Quarantine Province

On New Year’s Eve, a meteor shower streaked across the sky.

Like everyone else, Xu Yan thought it was the most beautiful blessing of the new year.

A year later, a strange disease began to spread. The infected suffered bizarre, shifting symptoms, with signs of every known illness, from arthritis to anthrax, cycling through their bodies.

Three years later, a vaccine was developed. Those who received it were called “New Humans,” their bodies strengthened and their aging slowed.

The one in a thousand who could not be vaccinated were called “Old Humans.”

Xu Yan was one of them.

He was driven into a quarantine zone and confined behind towering walls.

There, he saw true despair: not the virus, but what remains of human nature after being abandoned by the times.

He tried to rebuild order atop the ruins and win a shred of dignity for the people inside the walls.

But currents swirled both within and beyond them. The Alliance’s promises, the truth about the vaccine, and the widening rift between New Humans and Old Humans...

Xu Yan gradually realized that perhaps nothing he believed was true.

And who, exactly, were these walls built to protect?