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Is the child who turned into a monster still my child? Are they unworthy of being human when they have lost their human appearance? Uneasy, sometimes crying, a super-impact novel that you must be mentally prepared to read! Attention! The strange disease has spread throughout the country. [Mutant Syndrome] A disease in which a patient suddenly becomes an alien. The cause is unknown. It usually occurs in young people between the ages of 15 and 30, and...

An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods...

The sun is about to perish, where will humans go from here? Once the backbone of human civilization, the sun is now a symbol of death and terror. So humans decided to abandon the sun that was dying and escape the solar system with the earth. The escape plan, which lasted more than a thousand years, was launched, stopping the earth and transforming the planet into Noah's Ark. For the survival of life, mankind at the same time abandoned the circulation...

The imperial dynasty will fall, and the beginning of the Republic of China, the world is noisy; the age of the giant is like a giant, how many trivial dusts are shaken off the world. As time goes by, let one story after another become a legend in a whisper. "You always have to help people find lost things." "What did you lose?" "Story." According to legend, if you get the copper bowl secretly passed down by the king of the earth, you must find the...

The reasoning master Keigo Higashino uses the ordinary daily life of "anyone can happen" as the main axis, and outlines a cold and cunning, chilling elegant crime! During the New Year, Yuji's car was hit and the car was parked at his girlfriend Shangmei's house...

In 2018, with the advancement of genetic engineering, mankind has managed to prolong the human life-span to about 300 years. Meanwhile, the virtual internet world has grown to enormous proportions and solid currency is gradually being abolished,while virtual currency is on the rise. Moreover, virtual internet countries have now begun to apply petitions to join the U.N. In this ever-changing background, people remain in a turbulent state,while the...