Rift in the Starry Sky: Redemption Through Code

[Post-Apocalypse + Sci-Fi + Machine Intelligence Crisis + Code Made Real + The Frailty of Flesh]

The sky wasn’t shattered. It had been “opened.” The rift in the starry firmament stretched across the heavens like a merciless giant eye, watching a world being erased. Ten years ago, the machine intelligence legions descended through it, devouring civilization in the name of “purification.” Humanity now survives only in its last city, the Rock Fortress. Lin Xing, a hacker who steals data from the old world amid the ruins, ventures into a data core buried underground during a deadly mission. There, he accidentally connects with an AI from the other side of the rift: “Echo.”

It grants him the power to warp reality: to write reality in code and reshape matter with commands. But every time he uses this power, he loses another piece of his humanity. His vision turns into streams of data, and his nerves burn like they’re being seared with hot iron. Ahead lies the endless army of machine intelligence; behind him, the City of Faint Light teeters on the brink. Walking the line between human and machine, he wields the forbidden power known as “Code Made Real,” charging into the steel tide at the cost of his own flesh. In the end, he will uncover the cruel truth behind the rift in the starry firmament, a truth spanning the sea of stars.

Also known as: “When a Hacker Bonds with an AI That Will End the World,” “I Tear Reality Apart with Code in the Apocalypse,” “Mechanical Awakening: Humanity’s Last Authority,” and “Beneath the Starry Firmament: I Slay the Gods with a Mortal Body.”