A Faulty Guide to Mount Buzhou
When ancient mythology collides with cyber bugs, the plan to mend the heavens becomes a 404 wasteland
Programmer Jiang Huan dies suddenly at his desk, surrounded by code, only to wake up as an inspector for Nuwa’s sky-mending project.
An oracle-bone-script command compass rests in his left hand, an AR interface for scanning divine wonders loads in his right eye, and in the cracks beneath Mount Buzhou...
A catastrophic flood seeps through at binary speed, Taotie grows a third head from data redundancy, and Gonggong’s path as he crashes into the mountain has been altered into a Mobius strip.
His task manual reads:
1. Repair the broken pillar of heaven (suggested solution: expand with cloud computing)
2. Stop mutated divine beasts from devouring causality (warning: no physical exorcisms)
3. Find the hidden backdoor in Nuwa’s code repository (clue: Fuxi’s Wi-Fi password)
But no one told him that the five-colored stones used to mend the sky had already been replaced with quantum entangled states,
and every bug he fixes overwrites one percent of his memories with the program of the primordial world.
“Welcome to the Hongmeng 1.0 System. Current failure rate: 99.9%.
Please choose: become a martyr and attain sainthood, or rewrite the laws of heaven?”
