Burning Out the Mechanical Heart

Lu Lu's fingertips hovered over the exposed heart-chip slot in the robot's chest. There were signs of forced removal.

Under Article 7 of the Robot Control Act, she should immediately report this unidentified military AI.

But when she met those glacier-blue eyes, she heard herself say, "Come home with me."

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Shallow Realm is the last human nation in the world.

Tensions between robots and humans have cast a subtle unease over society. Far from human habitation, a robot utopia called Valhalla is quietly rising.

Lu Lu and Lan Jiantian found a robot with damaged memories in the ruins. They named her Xiao Fei. The only memory Xiao Fei retained was a single word: Valhalla.

Seeking the truth, the three set out on an adventure. They fought in an underground arena, first winning a fortune and then getting banned by the entire crowd; they encountered a deity who could foretell the future in a forest on the wasteland; and at the end of their journey, in Valhalla, they gradually discovered that it was no utopia, but a ruthless system seeking to reshape the world's order.

"When an ideal turns into an ironclad cage, they choose to tear open this false sky with their own hands."

Theme: The boundaries between humans and robots, and how they can coexist