
Serena, the most perfect—and most rebellious—weapon of destruction in the hands of the Creator, “Xiao.” Victor, a “defective” survivor of the first phase of the mutation program. To escape once and for all from that psychopathic “father” who treats human life as worthless, the two form a desperate alliance. Carrying a metal crate containing the ultimate secret, they plunge headlong into the Siberian ice fields at minus forty degrees. Above them, drones and bunker-busting missiles howl; behind them, a ten-thousand-metric-ton glacier collapses. When they took their last-ditch stand behind a rusted, abandoned Soviet blast door, severing the detonation wires and forcibly prying open the metal case— inside, there was neither the freedom gene they sought nor a dirty bomb powerful enough to destroy everything. There was only a “spare heart,” floating in nutrient solution and beating with an extremely faint pulse. “Congratulations, my daughter,” came the Creator’s chilling, mocking laughter over the loudspeaker. “You’ve just cut off Victor’s only chance of surviving the next three years.” Beneath the trap lay nothing but dead ends. If they didn’t go to those coordinates, the gravely wound…