NecroHarbinger：Melbourne‘s Codex of the Damned

When the Gamma Scarlet Moon tears open the sky, Melbourne becomes a blood-soaked chessboard for the superpowered and the grotesque. **Chen Mu**, a mortician with a shattered past, awakens the *Soulforged Hand*—a cursed gift that lets him steal abilities from the dead, at the cost of his own memories. But after discovering the *Spore Primordial*, a cosmic bioweapon buried beneath the city that rewrites the rules of power, he forms the *Funerary Syndicate* to survive a war waged by five factions: - **The Crimson Cross**: Vampiric remnants of the Third Reich, distilling immortality from blood-crystal chalices. - **The Lunar Brotherhood**: Gene-cursed werewolves devouring kin to stave off metamorphic collapse. - **Rust Gospel**: Cyborg zealots seeding their brains with self-replicating nanite swarms. - **Celestial Watchers**: Silicon-based parasites puppeteering city AI to bend reality’s probabilities. - **The Jester’s Carnival**: Chaos artists weaponizing quantum humor viruses into living tragedies. As Chen battles through a maelstrom of cybernetic Taoist exorcisms, Qing-dynasty zombies ripping through dimensional rifts, and whispers of a cosmic horror stirring beneath his feet, he uncovers brutal truths: - Every stolen ability carries its creator’s anguished final moments. - The hospital morgue hides an alien *Civilization Filtering Lab*. - The woman he loves is a living vessel for the Spore Primordial. When the mad philosopher **The Jester** transforms Melbourne into a flesh-and-steel theater of nightmares, Chen Mu must choose: become the deity of a new epoch, or remain the tombstone of a dying world.