Level One Silence

[In a world where words can catch fire and speech can explode, how will you survive?]

[An unconventional apocalypse story] [The AI male lead is a ball]

The print edition is now available on major platforms. It includes signed copies, special-edition signed copies, and a bonus story. For details, see WB @TypingNinthOrderMagicSquare.

Blurb:

On the day interdimensional pollution began and the whole world started to mutate, Pei Ran slept until one in the afternoon and decided to order takeout.

She picked up her phone and saw a message.

More accurately, it was an image.

The image said:

[Attention! From this moment on, do not speak or send text to anyone else. Communicating through images is the only safe method. Repeat: communicating through images is the only safe method.]

[The Silence has begun.]

Pei Ran: ?

Pei Ran: ??

[Pei Ran, Silence Survivor No. 1593]

[The world has fallen silent. Only your voice drives me forward through the mire.]

Pei Ran stared at the message for a long while, then carefully sent a picture of beef noodles to the owner of the noodle shop she often ordered from.

She even carefully added a big red X over the cilantro.

Machine-romantic, 1v1, happy ending. Updated before noon every day.

Content warnings (please read):

1. A completely fictional cyberpunk future, unrelated to reality.

2. A note for readers who only want the career-focused plot: romance takes up a significant portion, and the male lead has a strong presence. Don’t hope otherwise; there really is a lot of it, trust me.

3. This is another story in the AI-protagonist series. This time the male lead is an AI. At first, his main form is a battered metal ball; later, he’ll have a virtual avatar and a humanlike physical body.

4. The scene described in the blurb appears in Chapter 5. If you’re in a hurry, you can start reading from the beginning of the Silence at the end of Chapter 4.

5. Some readers asked for a hair-related warning. In Chapter 70, the heroine shaves off all her hair at once. Later, she has an extremely short buzz cut.

6. I’ll add more if I think of anything.

WB: @TypingNinthOrderMagicSquare

Coming soon: Domain Control [Guide and Sentinel]

In an interstellar era of genetic monopolies, Ye Xi is born with guide genes, but she can’t even get a guide license.

Not only is she unlicensed and unable to cleanse a sentinel’s mental domain, she’s also from Gaia.

Guides from Gaia have always had a reputation, and it’s definitely not a good one.

Being seen talking to her is enough to spark a huge scandal, yet some sentinels refuse to believe the rumors. They open their mental domains to her without reservation, letting her set up an unlicensed street stall and practice medicine illegally.

Still, they’re sometimes left stunned by the gaps in the common knowledge of Ye Xi, this unorthodox guide.

Ji Xun: “You’re such an experienced guide, yet you don’t know how sentinels train. Do you rarely talk about that with sentinels?”

“Sentinels at proper bases like yours usually don’t pay much attention to guides like me, so when I do run into one, I usually…”

Ye Xi pressed her lips together.

“…I usually just shove my mental tentacles straight in and take a look around their mental domain. I don’t really chat.”

Ji Xun: “… ”

[The mental domains of powerful sentinels are endless mirror mazes bristling with sharp shards: dangerous, chaotic, and profound. The slightest mistake can leave someone trapped inside with no way out. And amid the layers upon layers of disorienting reflections, it is not only the sentinel who appears, but the guide as well.

A guide is not a comforter. Every act of guidance is a true, life-and-death battle of the mind.

Dr. Glanya, Mental Authority]

Female guide and male sentinel, everyone’s favorite, romantic rivalry, otome-game style. The blurb will be updated; the title and character names are provisional.

Theme: Please, you must save yourself from the trials and tribulations of this world, again and again, countless times, without hesitation.