Chronicles of the Iron Knight

With a female lead, post-apocalyptic sci-fi

In the year 243X, AI robots, entrusted with humanity's highest hopes, suddenly run amok, plunging the world into chaos. Completely unprepared, humanity suffers defeat after defeat, until several years later, the Mech Disaster Alliance is formed. The world's top scientists develop a weapon to fight the AI disaster: giant humanoid combat robots known as Steel Knights.

During a defense battle, the young protagonist Li Changsheng, a military academy intern, encounters a mysterious monster and is gravely wounded. In the final moments of his life, a dark torrent pulls him in and carries him to another world, where even deeper secrets lie...