Before the Crisis

Name: Before the Crisis
Author: Ming and Lingyi

虞前

by Ming and Lingyi (铭与零一)

Status: Completed
Length: 312k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
Updated: 5mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Once I finish updating the final chapter, I'll add a chapter to help readers understand the story.

If you can't follow the earlier parts, you can read that chapter first. But I don't recommend it. I think it'll spoil the experience.

In the first few chapters, I took inspiration from The Sixth Sense. Two stories unfold in parallel, with the perspective concealed through first-person narration.

After that, it stops being first-person.

Please, give it a try.

This is a book that few people can stick with. It includes silicon-based and carbon-based life, the era before the Yu Dynasty, and mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The first few chapters are about survival, followed by adaptation. Of course, if you find the beginning hard to get through, you can also try starting from Chapter 19.

I'm at a loss.

As for the protagonist, he's the brains of the operation. But in the first three chapters, he doesn't even know where he is. In Chapter 3, he turns the tables on a ferocious beast. In Chapter 8, he sees a silicon-based market for the first time. In Chapter 13, he helps the silicon-based underclass turn the tables on bandits. Chapters 15 to 17 are about survival and adaptation. Chapter 17 has a Ponzi scheme, and from Chapter 20 through around Chapter 75, it's mostly schemes and traps, political maneuvering, and then, later on, reconstruction.

If you really think it's awful, go ahead and curse me out a couple of times.

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