Blood Eclipse Era

In the thirty-seventh year of the Falling Star Era, the 'Star Eclipse' brought by a meteor from beyond the sky swept across the globe. Cities were reduced to ruins, flesh mutated, and former humans became predators in the wilderness. Lu Chen, a timid scavenger, only wanted to trade remnants of the old era for clean water. However, an accident led him to bring back a still-beating black heart from a forbidden zone and rescue a mysterious old man pursued by various factions. The old man told him that the truth about the apocalypse humanity believed in was nothing but a carefully woven lie. The disaster from the sky was not accidental, and the monsters scattered across the wasteland had never truly lost their humanity. To survive, Lu Chen had to venture into the most dangerous Star Ruins, growing stronger amidst the hunts of bloodthirsty beasts, fanatical cults, and human fortresses. But as he approached the truth, he found his own body beginning to mutate, and the black heart seemed to have been waiting for his return all along. When the truth threatens to destroy the last survivors, Lu Chen must choose: to remain human or to become the monster that terrifies the entire wasteland. — Description from novelcodex.org