Time Strings

About the story

More than a hundred years ago, humanity's world was destroyed by the power of Time Strings from outer space. Mutation, slaughter, and war followed one after another. Fleeing monsters, humans gathered in Ximai City, the last untouched refuge, where they lived like trapped beasts. One rainy night, expeditionary commander Ke Beidao suddenly defects from Ximai City. That same night, the expeditionary army suffers a massive slaughter. Ye Yuze, a former expeditionary squad member now commanding the garrison, recalls what Ke Beidao told him before leaving. Some conspiracy seems to be hidden within Ximai City. While Ye investigates, the leadership holds a meeting to divide up the expeditionary army's remaining troops. President Du Lixun orders everyone connected with Ke Beidao killed. An even larger purge of Ximai City begins. Breaking through successive lines of soldiers, Ye Yuze rescues Ke Beidao's daughter Muguang and escapes the city. Yet as they talk, he increasingly senses that matters are far more complicated than he imagined. A greater conspiracy is slowly reaching toward the entire human world…