Slay, Shatter, and Poison

After AI technology came to dominate most aspects of human life, a viral storm swept across the internet. In an instant, all kinds of new viruses breached humanity’s network defenses. They drew on historical, mythological, and even fairy-tale settings, building worlds of their own inside the virtual realm. The protagonist, Ling Wei, was born able to [see] data. He founded his own antivirus company. But the more deeply he learned about the worlds these viruses had created, the less Ling Wei could tell: Was he eliminating viruses, or slaughtering living, breathing people?