The bustling streets of the past now lay in a grotesque, deathly silence.
Hoarse, frenzied whispers coiled across the sky, while indescribable ancient giants drifted beneath the sea.
Unknown diseases broke out, terrible disasters ravaged the land, and panicked people searched day and night for imaginary places of refuge.
Blood-rain fell. Lightning revealed the gathering crows. Nevermore, nevermore, they answered.
“We can see that this aberrant creature has twelve pairs of ribs, just like a human, but it also has a ‘transverse aberrant bone’ that humans do not...”
Inside the medical school, Gu Jun continued cutting with his scalpel, showing the students around him the aberrant creature’s rib cage on the dissection table.
A mysterious, uncanny age had arrived. Truth collapsed and order crumbled. Humanity could only press forward, unyielding, through the power of reason.
