Ding San

In an ordinary county town in District Twenty-One of the Chana Empire, a young woman gave birth at home by herself to a male baby with a congenital brain disorder. She then rode her boyfriend's motorcycle and abandoned the baby in a garbage heap, leaving him to live or die on his own.

At night, many wild dogs gathered around the garbage heap to forage. Hearing the baby's cries, a starving mother dog picked him up in her mouth and carried him back to her den.

The baby boy, held in the wild dog's mouth, stopped crying. Along the way, he reached out and touched the fur of this hungry, filthy mongrel...

Several years passed. News spread of a child with the same habits as wild dogs, foraging and sleeping alongside them. Tourists from some major cities even came out of curiosity and discovered that such a boy really existed. No one had expected that there was truly a child in this world who had been raised by wild dogs. His physical abilities were astonishing, and his capacity to adapt to his environment far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Many wealthy, kindhearted families wanted to adopt the child, but repeated interference prevented them from succeeding.

Ultimately, amid constant media coverage, he was adopted by a wealthy merchant living in the local county town. Although they discovered that the child had a brain disorder, over the course of ten years, his kindhearted adoptive mother taught the boy basic language and how to conduct himself as a person. She named him Ding San.

The plague erupted, instantly sweeping across all of District Twenty-One.

There was no so-called "Noah's Ark" from the movies. No matter how wealthy they were, no one could leave the quarantine zone.

When the plague ravaged the Central Ring,