The glass facade of Shanghai's financial center crumbles into dust, and Wang Erdog stands on the edge of a cliff on the 88th floor, beneath the mutating financial district. Swarms of nanobots weave a holographic star map around him, each mechanical insect flashing the number of his daughter Xiaoman's birthday.

  "72 hours left on the countdown to burning the sky tower." Late Autumn Lin's voice came over the encrypted channel, "Eden's EMP bomb has been deployed, but the detonation will erase everything inside the Ark..."

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  The zombies all over the city suddenly turn en masse, and their eyes light up eerie green at the same time. Mr. Wang looked at a satellite map projected from his bracelet, where red points of light representing infected people were converging into giant arrows pointing to a deep-sea drilling rig under construction in the depths of the East China Sea.