Rusty World

In 2147, Xincang City was subject to acidifying cold rain all year round. This city has long reached a consensus: flesh and blood are weak, while machines are eternal. People cut their bodies, implant prosthetics, and replace native flesh and blood with steel in pursuit of greater strength and longer life. In the muddy streets of the Lower Third District, Zhao Lan is an outlier. He does not rely on any mechanical transformation and possesses invisible and colorless energy. He has seen too many people at the bottom forced to give up their bodies in order to survive, and he has seen steel-armed reformers bullying the weak. He has compassion in his heart and never takes the initiative to kill. If he can hold back his hand, he will never kill them all. But when the cold mechanical violence crushes the livelihood of ordinary people, invisible energy will quietly appear in the world. Instruments cannot detect it, and technology cannot analyze it. When the whole world rushes towards the dream of eternal steel, he is the only one who sticks to his heart of flesh and blood. Acid rain overflowed the neon lights, and steel devoured humanity. He walked in the rusty city, guarding the remaining tenderness in the world.