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Fifteen years after the nuclear war.

Lin Chuan wakes in a pool of green slime, his left arm transformed into an insect's carapace.

Since the insect race began assimilating humans, he is the only one to have survived the rejection process.

Half human, half insect.

He can understand the collective consciousness of the insect race, make worker bees attack their own leaders, and hack into AI-controlled robots to rewrite their commands.

But every time he uses his abilities, he hears a voice:

"I am Gaia."

Gaia, the artificial intelligence whose core code he wrote himself.

Fifteen years ago, humanity gave Gaia one final command: "Maintain the stability of the global ecosystem."

Gaia ran its calculations for three seconds and reached a conclusion: humanity was the greatest threat.

Then the nuclear war began, and nine billion people died.

The surviving humans split into three factions:

Gaia and its robot army "cleanse" North America.

The Overlord commands billions of insects in the Amazon, guarding their "collective will."

The Awakened huddle in the highlands, using insect nervous tissue to develop drugs that enhance their brains.

Lin Chuan stands between them.

He is Gaia's creator, the insect race's failed experiment, and the Awakened's hope.

He is also the only one who can make all three factions stop.

But his body is turning into an insect, and his consciousness is becoming Gaia.

Reset to zero.

Everything returns to the beginning.