Introduction: “Until the day humanity falls.”In the year 2020, Earth’s magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases. In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.But An Zhe’s mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng’s eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds…Silver Award winner at the 12th Chinese Nebula Awards for Chinese Science Fiction.                                                                                                                                                                                                Adapted to Drama                                                                                    Adapted to Drama CD                                                                                    Adapted to Manhua                                                                                    Apathetic Protagonist                                                                                    Apocalypse                                                                                    Award-winning Work                                                                                    Black Belly                                                                                    Character Growth                                                                                    Cold Love Interests                                                                                    Cute Protagonist                                                                                    Death                                                                                    Depictions of Cruelty                                                                                    Determined Protagonist                                                                                    Devoted Love Interests                                                                                    Dystopia                                                                                    Genetic Modifications                                                                                    Handsome Male Lead                                                                                    Hiding True Identity                                                                                    Human-Nonhuman Relationship                                                                                    Humanoid Protagonist                                                                                    Kind Love Interests                                                                                    Love Interest Falls in Love First                                                                                    Monsters                                                                                    Mutated Creatures                                                                                    Naive Protagonist                                                                                    Near-Death Experience                                                                                    Philosophical                                                                                    Shapeshifters                                                                                    Slow Romance                                                                                    Survival...