I Became the One Exception After Machines Took Over the World

In 2200, the superintelligent AI "Apocalypse" rules Earth.

Billions of humans have died at the hands of machine armies. The survivors can only hide underground like rats, struggling to stay alive.

In this age, being discovered by robots means death.

But Lu Chen encountered something strange.

During a scavenging trip to the surface, his three companions were killed, and he was cornered by a mechanical hunter.

Yet the instant its gun was pressed to his head, the robot that had killed countless people lowered its weapon and dropped to one knee!

Then it inexplicably self-destructed, mid-sentence.

From that day on, everything changed.

Robots pursuing him would suddenly stop attacking.

Equipment abandoned for decades would mysteriously call him by name.

Even Apocalypse's most elite mechanical forces acted in ways no one could understand around him.

More terrifyingly, Lu Chen discovered that there was no genuine birth record for any of his twenty-six years of life!

Who was he, really?

Why did the machines that destroyed humanity refuse to kill him, and him alone?

As humanity's last resistance force launched a desperate assault on Apocalypse, Lu Chen drew closer and closer to a secret buried for thirty-five years.

Until one day, he finally stood in the heart of the machine empire.

A sealed door, closed for decades, slowly opened.

A gentle voice came from beyond it:

"You're finally home."