The Twin Worlds Gate: The Modern World and the Ashen Age

On his thirty-seventh day unemployed, Shen Du found a door behind the storage cabinet in his rented apartment. On the other side lay the Ashen World a hundred years in the future: dead cities, machines, zombies, and a crystal core that could open the door. He didn't dare tell anyone. He only grabbed a handful of gold jewelry from the other side, sold it for eighty thousand, paid off his debts, and bought more of his mother's medicine. But the medicine could only keep her illness at bay, not cure it. Then, in a biological research facility on the other side, he read a line: “Lung tissue regeneration induction, Phase III. A test subject has survived.” He decided to go back. What he didn't know was that the deeper he dug into the things on the other side, the more they seemed to reach back and hook him in. And the jar of granules he kept close to his body was both medicine and bait.