Fireworks Journeying West: a Chronicle of Ruins in the Wasteland
薪火西行:废土文墟记
by Spicy Weird Duck (辣怪鸭)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 20k Words
- Genre
- Multi-Orientation
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Stats
Tags
- ThemeWestern Fantasy
- POVMale Lead
- Age18+
- Apocalypse
- Wasteland
- Xuanhuan
Synopsis
In the year 2742 of Wenxu, the world was forever cold. This coldness has nothing to do with the wind and snow, but the desolation of human hearts that has spread throughout the ages after the cultural context was severed. All rituals, music, poems and books have been annihilated, leaving only the cold and turbid air in the world that cannot be transformed. The ancient order collapsed, and the heavy industry cluster was rebuilt in the Sky Heaven. The giant mechanical arm forged prosthetic bodies and computing power chips day and night. The Lingshan ashram was reduced to a global data center. The Tripitaka Scripture was torn apart by the computing power storm. Billions of broken pages were scattered in the frozen soil, abyss, and mechanical ruins. No complete chapter can be circulated anymore. The immortal Buddha who transcended the world turned into a cold algorithm, and the words carrying the great truth became a waste that the world despises. The rules of the troubled times are completely turned upside down. All sentient beings abandon literature and pursue weapons, and abandon their hearts to pursue delusion. Everyone transforms their bodies, overdraws their savings and exchanges for computing power. They firmly believe that steel and data can withstand the cold wave and exchange for long-term stability. In the entire Shenhan Ruins, everyone sought external strength and used mechanical barriers to isolate the frost and mist, but allowed the lights in their hearts to gradually extinguish. The thick soil buries the volume, the cold water swallows the chapter, and the humanistic spark becomes weaker and weaker day by day, and is about to be completely extinct. There is a glimmer of hope left in the way of heaven, and the last remaining flame of the cultural context breaks free from the confinement of the data flow and falls into the vast cold ruins. It did not fall on the gifted transformation genius, but instead landed on the palm of a run-down settlement in the northern border of the Great Wilderness, a young man with incomplete fire and a weak body who was regarded as a burden by everyone. Everything in the world is cold, except for one broken lamp. The journey westward to cross the world has begun. Purpose: Single strength cannot save the world, balance and tolerance are the right way of the world, and extreme killing will only aggravate the imbalance and destruction; humanistic words (human hearts, warmth) can dissolve the emptiness and cold mechanical turbidity, and adhering to the context can reshape the disordered world; The real strength is not to conquer destruction, but tolerant and transition, leaving room for redemption for the lost; The road ahead is full of hardships, only by being calm, self-reflective, and walking together can we complete the long road of salvation; Abandon the obsession with quick success and instant benefit, and use gentle and long-term perseverance to repair the imbalanced world and inherit the fire of the world.