I’m a livestreaming fox demon who begs for food by licking the screen.
A thousand years of foxfire have burned away my dignity and my tail, but they can’t burn away the wildness in my bones.
Humans call me cute, sexy, and not human.
They’re right. I’m not.
They tip me with emotional points and assess my commercial value.
Some smile at me, some cry at me, but only I know:
When they cry, I’m eating. When they smile, I’m hunting.
Then one day, my tail broke. I could no longer absorb emotions, and I couldn’t survive.
A human corporation called Jiuding fished me out,
saying they would upload me into a virtual assistant program so I could chat with people forever.
I laughed.
They want a well-behaved electronic pet,
but all I know how to do is bite.
“You want to hunt me? Then we’ll see who goes crazy first.”
I am Qing Ni, a fox demon, a lunatic, an anomaly in an AI livestream.
My claws are on the keyboard, my teeth are behind the algorithm.
I’ll crawl out through the cracks in the code
and burn this world to the ground in foxfire.
#LunaticHeroine #NonhumanHeroine #MonsterLivestream
#SoWildItHurts #BrokenTailStillFierce
#A cyberpunk tale with the atmosphere of “Happy Hunting” and the allegorical structure of a Liu Cixin story: “Listen up, humans. I’m done pretending to smile.”
