The Puppeteer

[This book is complete! Thank you, dear readers, for your support. The blurb for my next book, The Last Diviner in the Cyber World, is at the very bottom.]

1. Shi Qiu has lost her memories. She only remembers that she seems to have died in a car accident, and when she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in a wasteland world after the apocalypse.

Here, the people who survive are either lucky or exceptionally capable. To stay alive, you need an ability.

Some people may wake up one day with an ability, but most have to go to Sifang Pharmaceuticals and get an injection to gain one.

Resources are scarce, the environment is harsh, and most people have no choice but to enter the perilous [Resource Zones] to obtain supplies they need to survive.

Shi Qiu discovers that she has gained a powerful ability. In exchange, she has become a gravely ill young woman. Unless her [blue bar] is full, she coughs up blood, so she needs supplies from the [Resource Zones] even more than other people do.

[Welcome, Dollmaker Shi Qiu, to Resource Zone 172. Only one person may leave this zone with supplies. Let the contest begin, ]

Not a single ability user who entered the Resource Zone with her thinks much of Shi Qiu. Compared to the other powerful ability users, everyone sees her as a girl who can only create useless dolls.

The gates of the Resource Zone open. Dust blows past as a slender, pale-faced young woman walks out of Resource Zone 172.

The wind sweeps by, carrying a tattered, yellowed sheet of paper onto the gate. It bears Shi Qiu's photograph and details her ability, but it is a wanted poster.

[Dollmaker Shi Qiu. Her ability can turn humans into powerful dolls. She makes no distinction between friend and foe: anyone who provokes her will be killed. Threat level: SSS. Keep your distance if encountered!!!]

2. Shi Qiu grew up being fed by her neighbors, receiving care from everyone around her. Though she was an orphan, her world was filled with kindness.

That is, until the apocalypse came. She watched one after another of the people who had shown her such kindness die before her eyes, and resolved to save humanity.

Another resistance army persecuted Shi Qiu and took her to a laboratory. They intended to experiment on their former leader, but despite being nearly powerless, Shi Qiu managed to escape through sheer force of will.

When Shi Qiu regains her memories and faces her former teammates as they try to capture and interrogate her, she can only sneer.

"You've harmed so many innocent people, and you still claim everything you did was for everyone's sake?"

Shi Qiu: "They were innocent, and I will mourn them, but I will never regret what I did! Tell me, which peaceful nation wasn't bought with blood? Were there no innocent casualties?"

"You... You're just making excuses!"

Shi Qiu has no desire to argue, nor any reason to. She turns and steps into the newly opened Resource Zone.

Coming next: The Last Diviner in the Cyber World

[Planned for January 2026. You can add it to your library now and let the chapters pile up!]

"You mean you really have no idea what happened three hundred years ago, or what the world was like back then?"

Yi Jiu awakens in an abandoned underground laboratory. She discovers that the lab has been wrecked, and her older sister, who entered the stasis pod with her, has vanished.

To find her sister and carry on with the mission the Doctor gave her three hundred years ago, Yi Jiu joins forces with a team in the city. Together, they venture outside the city in search of supplies and fight monsters.

Humanity has advanced greatly, but people are helpless against the monsters beyond the city walls. No matter how advanced the technology, it cannot kill them, so people can only huddle inside their various cities.

But when Yi Jiu kills a monster, she expects the others to praise her. Instead, she turns around to find her teammates staring at her in terror.

"You have the same power as the monsters outside the city! Are you a monster too? Have you evolved?!"

Yi Jiu is bewildered. She doesn't understand why people in this era know nothing about diviners' abilities, or why there are no diviners.

Three hundred years ago, humans could all use the power of diviners. Back then, rather than calling them diviners, people called those who used this power [time-reversal ability users].

When Yi Jiu once again fights the monsters outside the city and faces one with power of the same origin as a diviner's, she begins to sense that something is wrong.

Then she sees the corpses of other diviners in a monster's lair outside the city, and the secret hidden for three hundred years slowly begins to come to light.

The history of three hundred years ago has become a blank. Was it lost to war, or was something more sinister at work?

As the last diviner in the cyber world, Yi Jiu is determined to uncover the truth and complete the mission she accepted three hundred years ago.

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