Starting Out Middle-Aged, I Survive the Apocalypse and Fight My Way Through the AI

[555, a newbie writing solo. I'm rolling around and begging for follows!]

As the saying goes, when you have no idea what's going on, the best response is to keep quiet and bury your head in the sand.

In early 2024, 22-year-old Wang Yao was the queen of burying her head in the sand.

After waking from a night's sleep, Wang Yao transmigrated to the future, and it was beyond anything she could have imagined.

In 2044, AI rules and humanity has fallen from its pedestal. Technology is practically supernatural. Libraries have nervous systems, marionettes have replaced fluffy toys, and the real Earth lies beyond the walls. Mutant beasts roam the nuclear-altered forests, while dancing skeletons haunt the fallen cities...

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[Hello, Wang Yao! Your Symbiotic System has been successfully bound. I am your AI aide, number 018. To help you survive the dream apocalypse, please listen to the following instructions.]

(Dream Rule 1: Reasonably doubt that everything is fictional, or you will be trapped in the dream forever.)

(Dream Rule 2: When you receive an instruction, first determine whether your AI aide is from the present world or the apocalypse.)

(Dream Rule 3: Instructions cannot be wrong. Be sure to carry them out.)

(Dream Rule 4: Stay away from all technological products, including yourself.)

(Dream Rule 5, 5, 5, 5, 5...)

???

[Hello, Wang Yao! Your Symbiotic System has been successfully bound. I am your AI aide, number 018. To help you survive the dream apocalypse, please forget the instructions above. From this moment on, remember the only rule for surviving the dream.]

(Kill yourself at the same time as you kill the AI.)

[May you return soon!]

!!!

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In just one morning, Wang Yao realized how serious the situation was.

There was no end in sight to the dream, the apocalypse was on the verge of erupting, and her System had... split personalities!!!

[Reading guide]

Middle-aged protagonist from the start! An alternate-world setting! The author's worldbuilding is wildly fanciful and has no real-world allusions!

[Upcoming instances] (Note: The plotlines are connected.)

(1. Dream Survival Rules: Reasonably doubt that everything is fictional.)

(2. The Library's Nervous System: "Something for nothing" becomes reality, but none of what you gain belongs to you.)

(3. Escape from the Nuclear-Altered Earth: Emergency warning, mutant creatures ahead!)

(4. Love Between an Android and a Human: It has no feelings. Its feelings came from the person it killed.)

(5. Win Over the Husband in the Present Day: A man like this shouldn't have a wife! Does he know how obnoxious he was when he was young?)

Theme: Stay clear-headed, independent, and brave enough to fight back.