Call Her Mother Goddess [Cyber Wasteland]

[In the year 125 of the Star Era, a tyrant destroys the evil god and saves the chaotic world. The wasteland's myriad factions unite, and the human base of Origin Realm is renewed in every way, ushering in the New Fire Era.]

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In Alliance Year 2025, Qiao Shu graduated straight into unemployment. Between getting a job and going back to school, she chose to go burn incense at a temple

At least, that was the plan.

Who could have expected that a poor sap like her would manage to pray to an evil god just by burning incense?

And who could have expected the wish to actually come true... without keeping her alive!

Dear Star Era, you damned thing; dear wasteland world, you cursed place!

Would you believe her if she said this wasn't where she wanted to be, and that she definitely hadn't wanted to cultivate immortality in a cyber-future? It was all because that damn fate messed up her assignment!

...Whether they believed her or not, it was too late.

Just as countless horror movies warn, once it starts, misfortune clings to the protagonist like a ghost. The timing is always wrong, the place is always wrong, and nobody is on her side. The whole point is that there's no escape.

What's more, a hapless soul remains a hapless soul even after transmigrating. She'd just changed settings, not stopped being unlucky

In this new world, ability users held the power of life and death, androids possessed eternal intelligence, two great financial conglomerates controlled the lifeblood of the human base, and underground churches were steadily encroaching on the light of day.

Biological genes fused without limit, machines sprouted new life, human bodies transformed and revealed their claws, and mutated forms peered into the mind, all of them part of civilization.

Above, in the floating cities, people who called themselves the evolved debated the next stage of civilization;

On the ground, in the bases, the mutated and the irradiated fought over scarce resources;

In the darkness underground, fanatics and blasphemers coveted the path to heaven.

In short, countless beings wore human skins, each with their own agenda, managing the future of "humanity."

And as always, she was "rich."

She had a background in the bottommost reaches of the abandoned district,

a "useless" body with an abysmally low genetic modification rate,

strange energy surging inside her, a destiny tied to traveling through time and space, and every faction trying to use and betray her.

She had one deadly "game" after another, more than she could count. She didn't want them, but they were still shoved at her, with such overwhelming generosity that she could hardly refuse!

Most important of all, countless people kept telling her, "Everyone has their own fate!"

And in their mouths, her fate was to be a sacrifice, experimental material, a pawn, an NPC, an anonymous ant, a nobody destined to die.

To that, she wanted to say: One bug brings the whole thing crashing down, but a heap of bugs means it's running! She'd gladly accept every "gift" fate had to offer!

What happened after that?

She had no idea either.

She only followed "fate" and carried out "orders,"

and then those people, cursing her as a "tyrant" who would "blaspheme and destroy the world," lifted her from the abandoned district and placed her on an altar.

Then they shouted in unison:

"Please call her... Mother Goddess!"

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"If death is humanity's fated end, then I will burn the life destined to fade away and set this godforsaken world ablaze."

Qiao Shu's notes

#WhatDoesntKillMeMakesMeStronger

#EvenAHaplessSoulCanBeAStubbornFighterBuildingUpHerCombatPower

#AfterCultivatingHeresyTheSkyTurnedBlueTheWaterTurnedClearAndEvenTheEmperorDied

Theme: Humanity's fate is to carry the torch of life and march toward death, its final destination.