The Flesh of the Rejected

Name: The Flesh of the Rejected [Vietnamese]
Author: tm_than

by tm_than Ongoing

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Synopsis

In the sterile, neon-drenched corridors of a starship district, Subject 198 knew nothing but silent, ceaseless labor.

He was a clone—genetically engineered to lack any form of joy, sorrow, or pain. His sole purpose was to serve as a biological CPU, handling massive torrents of data for a super-grade AI system until his brain inevitably overheated and burned out. He possessed only a cold, analytical mind and a single, buried residual instinct: the fierce desire to survive.

But on the eve of his scheduled disposal, a dark pact with a bizarre technology deity altered his fate. A grim contract was forged in the shadows: in exchange for complete, perfect human emotions after death, he must help harvest the human biomass of his empire, engraving ultimate agony and fanatical despair into the civilization.

Accepting the covenant, he weaponized his cold logic to overthrow the empire and conquer other worlds under the name Silas Thorne. Yet, as a first-generation clone, his lifespan was short.

When his time finally came, the deity fulfilled the promise—but the price of a whole soul was a descent into an evolutionary hell.

Silas Thorne is reborn in the anomalous fields of the Outcast world, trapped within a grotesque, asymmetrical vessel: four crab legs, eight mismatched eyes, an exposed beating heart...

And absolutely no mouth.

To survive, the former biological CPU must utilize his supreme, calculated rationality to navigate a broken biology and a rising, manic resentment. In a world where even the stone trees blink with human eyes and monsters cannibalize each other to force mutations, he must rewrite his own anatomy.

He will fight. He will butcher. He will adapt.

Even if he has to shatter his own vestigial bones and sew alien flesh onto his stomach with glass needles, he will drag his crippled vessel to perfection—and stomp his cruel destiny beneath his feet.

This is a story I wrote and translated myself.