This book is the first prize-winning novel of the 1st Kunpeng Youth Science Literature Award. It depicts a future world-sweeping plague which could petrify human body and thus shatters the order of human society. The novel unfolds a sci-fi story along the logic of medical research, revealing human reactions to the epidemic crisis. The novel presents a wealth of scientific information, detailed scientific reasoning, and a sound logical system, which meets the aesthetic required by hard science fiction.