Connect to the Apocalypse

A sightseeing train derailed, and Zhu Xiao was thrown into an apocalypse five hundred years in the future.

Here, supplies are scarce and monsters run rampant. Technology has regressed, no longer able to shield humanity with firearms. The human settlements are gradually turning into barren, uncanny realms occupied by monsters.

As an exception who remains untouched by the aura of these uncanny realms, Zhu Xiao soon receives a notice:

She is about to be locked in a laboratory, where she must devote everything to research and ensure the continuation of a rare genetic line.

Zhu Xiao: ...Give me my money back!!!

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As the crisis grows more severe, civilian ability users are also called upon to defend their homes.

A hastily assembled squad is sent into an uncanny realm to rescue the civilians trapped there.

At first, nobody has any faith in this squad of low-level ability users. Their captain, Zhu Xiao, has only an ordinary healing ability, and is mocked as the cleanest, tastiest food in a monster's eyes.

Later, the civilians who return to the main city are interviewed, and say excitedly, "The truth is, this squad's strength was completely underestimated. Every one of them can take on ten people! Oh, and Zhu Xiao can take on a hundred!"

"And that's not all. Zhu Xiao's healing actually brought that uncanny realm back to life. It really grew grass!"

Behind the camera, Zhu Xiao slaps the notice from back then onto the table in front of the higher-ups.

"Who wrote this? Come out and face me."

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As Zhu Xiao's brilliance comes to the fore, the balance of power in the apocalypse is overturned. Several top-secret files are gradually revealed.

Only then do people learn that the train was a response to the apocalypse's more than a thousand pleas for help, sent to the past in different timelines.

And Zhu Xiao...

"I am the only successful operative, after more than a thousand experiments launched under the 'Track Connection Project.'"

"Codename: Zero."

"I am both the apocalypse's end and your only dawn."

[Reading Guide]

1. The female lead is a healer and overwhelmingly the strongest fighter. The cover art was commissioned for her.

2. This book was inspired by an idea I originally wanted to write for another story: the past x the apocalypse. How do you tell someone that the belated glimmer of hope in their eyes is the rescue I finally managed to achieve after countless attempts?

Please add my upcoming novel, "Junior Sister Must Be Innocent," to your collection~

Blurb:

The Yunhuang Continent has been invaded by demons and evil spirits, plunging it into chaos and danger.

Shen Tianshuang has no spiritual meridians and is frail and delicate, drifting through these turbulent times like duckweed.

But Tianshuang is lucky. After returning a jade pendant she happened to pick up, she meets Xie Yanqiu, who takes her back to the United Martial Academy. From then on, she becomes his junior sister.

For three years, they depend on each other, and he is always there to protect her.

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Like everyone else, Tianshuang is very fond of Xie Yanqiu.

Xie Yanqiu, the United Martial Academy's leading disciple, burst onto the scene at sixteen. At eighteen, he single-handedly fought his way through the demon realm and turned the tide. Revered by countless people, he still cares for all living beings.

He is the righteous world's unattainable moon, admired by countless people.

When news of their engagement spreads, accusations and insults from the outside world come in an endless stream. The righteous path's once-in-a-century genius, the continent's last hope, insists on marrying a useless burden who cannot cultivate. And in these chaotic times, strength rules. She cannot even lift a sword, so how can she deserve to stand beside him?

But what does that matter? Xie Yanqiu shields her from every rumor, his eyes full of love. Tianshuang doesn't care whether others envy or resent her.

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Later, the Lord of the Demon Realm reappears, and heaven and earth teeter on the brink of collapse.

Xie Yanqiu sets out with sword in hand. All across the land, people celebrate, certain he will slay the Demon Lord and restore peace to the world.

But Tianshuang can only wait for a cold coffin to come home.

At the funeral hall, people whisper that she has lost her protector. Xie Yanqiu spent his life slaying countless demons and evil spirits, making many enemies. The Demon Lord will surely turn on her next.

The following day, the frail young woman whom everyone had looked down on charges alone into the demon realm with a sword. She slays the Demon Lord, already gravely wounded by Xie Yanqiu, avenging him and eliminating the threat to herself once and for all.

The whole world is in an uproar. Everyone says Xie Yanqiu must have made a life-for-life pact to defy fate and change his fiancee's destiny.

Tianshuang nods, her voice gentle and filled with nostalgia. "Yes, Senior Brother always treated me so well."

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With the merit of saving the world to her name, Tianshuang is no longer who she once was. She takes charge of the United Martial Academy.

Delegations arrive from all corners to congratulate her. Outside the banquet hall, Tianshuang sees a young man who should have been reduced to ashes and scattered to the winds.

His longsword points straight at her heart as he watches her with a beaming smile.

"Junior Sister, or rather, Lord of the Demon Realm, it must have been hard keeping up the act, huh?"

Theme: Love life