Nuclear Silkworm

Nuclear Silkworm is a long fantasy adventure novel by web author An Wuluo, first serialized on Zongheng Chinese Network in September 2009. It runs 237 chapters and about 810,000 characters and is complete. The story is set in a postmodern adventure world: among the perilous wastelands and wild belts, adventurers survive thanks to the nuclear silkworm, a parasite that lives in the human body and can evolve continuously. Different nuclear silkworms grant hosts wildly varied special abilities—perception, manipulation, enhancement, domain suppression, and more. The higher the evolution tier, the more astonishing the power, and the harder it is to control. The protagonist, Pu Ge, is an ordinary student who by chance obtains a nuclear silkworm from the adventure wastelands and is drawn into the world of adventurers. He makes companions, joins mercenary groups, and gets caught in the schemes of various factions, enduring pursuit, flight, and the loss of family and friends. Later, seeking the truth of his origins and clues to the splits related to his own nuclear silkworm, he goes deep into the wastelands and keeps evolving and improving through battle after battle and trial after trial. In the later part of the novel, massive waves of wild beasts invade the human world; Pu Ge returns after five years of disappearance, leads the human side in maneuvering and fighting against the nuclear silkworm and wild beast factions, and ultimately wins the war, while his own whereabouts become a legendary mystery. The book moves at a comic-book fighting pace, with dense battle descriptions and layered power settings; it is the author's attempt at the youth coming-of-age plus otherworld adventure formula.