Shadow of the Sequence: Divine Code

Name: Shadow of the Sequence: Divine Code
Author: Man in the Great Lake

序列之影：神明代码

by Man in the Great Lake (大湖中人)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 201k Words
Genre: Sci-Fi & Apocalypse
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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In the cyberpunk wasteland city known as New Abyss, a poor person’s life is worth even less than moldy synthetic starch.

The plutocrats rule an earthly paradise built from titanium alloy and holographic neon, while hundreds of millions of people on the bottom rungs are dumped like trash into sewers under endless corrosive acid rain. Lin Ke was a retired hunter who wanted nothing more than to keep his sister safe and scrape by. Until one day, an armored vehicle from Pan-Asia Heavy Industries smashed through his front door and abducted his sister, who had a butterfly-shaped birthmark on her collarbone, to use as “living material.”

Desperate to find his blood relative, Lin Ke intercepts a firefight and seizes a dark blue primeval chip that conceals a top-secret defense line. He forcibly jacks it into his brain and dives deep, only to discover not corporate secrets, but a cold, despairing digital slaughterhouse: tens of thousands of poor people submerged in nutrient fluid and turned into living Hosts for an unknown fungus.

More terrifying still, hidden behind this is an ancient, higher-dimensional System code called [Ymir]. Flesh is mutating, and steel is rusting. It is breaching physical barriers, preparing to harvest all of humanity’s cerebral cortexes and erase them through dimensional reduction.

Lin Ke grins. He welds a miniature electromagnetic pulse device onto his cheap mechanical prosthetic arm and looks up at the sky veiled in crimson corrupted code.

“Even if you’re gods perched on servers in a higher dimension, if you so much as touch a hair on her head, I’ll smash your main server to pieces today.”

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