Silent Ruins

In a collapsing world where "anti-entropic spiritual matter" reshapes the law, humans fear that it will attract the spiritual erosion of invisible "dark bodies", and they are even more afraid of their gathering and materialization, bringing about physical massacres. The remaining civilization huddles in underground city-states, with the "Fortress Empire" leading the order. Its radical "Iron Barrier Sect" proposed that if one could control the anti-entropic spiritual matter, they might be able to create the ultimate weapon against monsters. Patrol member Wanqi Yinxiao was recruited by the empire after surviving an encounter with a hidden entity, but accidentally exposed the core secret. He learned about a sealed living experiment - codenamed "Twenty Minus Two" (read Jian'er). She is the only successful "vessel" who can independently generate and control anti-entropy spiritual matter. Her power is manifested in the form of eighteen special dark body "Wuying" holding ancient weapons. According to the data, her loss of control once leveled an outpost. When the empire's pursuit order was issued at the same time, Yin Xiao fled to the hellish surface wasteland with the stolen top-secret data. His purpose was not to save, but because he had a glimpse of the fatal fundamental fallacy in the empire's theory: the entire civilization's understanding of "anti-entropic spiritual matter" may have been wrong from the beginning. And the girl who was defined as a weapon was not only the cruel product of this mistake, but also perhaps the only key to overturning all despair and finding a real way out for mankind. A tribute to the "Metro" series and a tribute to Dmitry Glukhovsky. This is a story about finding the true way out of civilization in a cognitive prison.