In the perpetually smog-choked, lower districts of Neo-Terra, where breathable air is a luxury filtered by the omnipresent AetherCorp, Ren “Bio-Ghost” Malik makes a living as an illicit bio-hacker, augmenting bodies for survival in the toxic environment. His own augmented lungs burn with every labored breath, a constant reminder of humanity’s failing planet. When a desperate client begs him to find a cure for the “Aether Blight,” a mysterious illness plaguing the poor, Ren uncovers AetherCorp’s horrifying secret: “Project Edenfall.” The corporation isn’t purifying the air; they’re cultivating a bio-engineered fungal spore that causes the blight, all to harvest a rare, valuable resource that thrives only in the poisoned atmosphere, slowly transforming the city’s inhabitants into compliant, chemically dependent hosts. Hunted by AetherCorp’s ruthless “Ecotech Enforcers” and struggling against the insidious blight within his own body, Ren must expose the truth to a world dependent on its oppressors, risking his very last breath to reclaim a future free from manufactured disease and corporate control.
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