The Guilty God

In the tenth year of the apocalypse, a scavenger was revered as a god by the survivors.

He could make the zombie hordes retreat on their own, find every source of clean water among the ruins, and draw a complete ecological cycle with his bare hands. Everyone called him a savior sent from heaven, the last light in the apocalypse.

Only he knew the truth.

He had released the world-ending virus himself.

His codename was "The Zeroer." He had destroyed the old world, and now he wanted to build a house in the ashes that would never fall.

In a broadcast, Jiang Huaixin, the man hunting the culprit, said, "Listeners, I'm going to tell you a story. About a scientist, and the night he pressed the button."

A King-level mutant lowered its head to him in the moonlight, forcing out a single word from its throat: "...Father."

And in his pocket, he always carried a blue notebook. On its first page, in elegant handwriting, was a line:

"Wangshu, if you must bear the weight of an entire world, at least let me be the first scar on your back."

This is a story about destruction and rebuilding, guilt and redemption.

He is humanity's enemy, and its only hope.