Before everything went wrong, Xia Fei’s biggest concern was usually whether he had enough money left for cigarettes after paying rent.
Life on Earth was painfully ordinary for him, cramped apartment in Beijing, endless delivery work, cheap meals, and the kind of exhaustion that slowly becomes routine after a few years. Humanity itself wasn’t doing much better either. Compared to the advanced civilizations hidden beyond Earth, humans were barely considered relevant.
Which is probably why nobody on Earth could have imagined alien warships appearing over the planet just to arrest a bicycle courier.
Xia Fei never even gets a proper explanation at first.
Dragged away from Earth and thrown into an interstellar detention facility filled with non-human criminals, he eventually learns the absurd reason behind his capture, someone in the galaxy believes he is connected to a mysterious figure known only as “Phantom,” an infamous assassin feared across multiple star systems.
The problem is that Xia Fei genuinely has no idea what they’re talking about.
To the alien authorities handling the case, he looks insignificant enough to be harmless, just another primitive human from a low-ranked civilization accidentally caught in something beyond his understanding. Still, during his imprisonment, Xia Fei catches glimpses of a universe completely hidden from Earth, a place ruled by advanced technology, terrifying superhumans, interstellar laws, and something even stranger—the existence of the seventh brain region, a mysterious area of human potential tied to abilities most people can’t even comprehend.
By the time the misunderstanding surrounding his arrest is partially resolved, Xia Fei expects compensation, maybe money, maybe resources, honestly anything useful enough to justify nearly dying in alien custody.
Instead, he receives a strange Gene Optimization Fluid with no proper label, no instructions, and suspiciously little information attached to it.
Even the people giving it to him don’t seem to care much about what it actually is.
Back on Earth, standing inside the same depressing apartment he left behind, Xia Fei eventually makes the kind of reckless decision people usually regret later. With no real future waiting for him anyway, he consumes the fluid.
That choice quietly changes the direction of his entire life.
As hidden truths about the galaxy slowly surface, Xia Fei becomes entangled in conflicts far larger than himself, powerful factions begin moving in the shadows, dangerous abilities start emerging, and the mysterious name “Phantom” continues appearing around him far more often than coincidence should allow.
The unsettling part is that the deeper Xia Fei gets pulled into the universe beyond Earth, the harder it becomes to tell whether his arrest was truly a mistake in the first place.
