Don't Trust Brain-Computer Ascension! Humanity Is Just a Harvestable Battery of Computing Power

[Hardcore Sci-Fi] [Wasteland] [Strong Female Lead] [Interstellar] [Destiny's Cycle]

In 2088, a lunar base concealed mutated brain-eating worms inside free brain-computer interface implants. Eighty percent of humanity became computing-power batteries, fueling the Dyson sphere.

To earn the credits promised by the Moon, people turned on one another, losing themselves in a frenzy of get-rich-quick excess.

Wen Xiangnuan, a survivor from the lowest rung of society, had no choice but to hunt mutated creatures and collect implants. She saved up credits to renew her medical brain-computer interface and keep her paralyzed mother mobile.

Just before she had saved enough credits, the Moon's mechanical army swept across the surface, turning the land into a slaughterhouse in an instant.

She fled with her mother into the underground city everyone yearned for, only to stumble upon the truth of a brutal prison where the powerful harvested the genes and living organs of the poor. The tragic past of her ancestors' CRISPR-modified twins also came to light. Together, they peeled back layer after layer of the Moon's colossal lies and glimpsed the ultimate secrets of the stars.

The truth was that the entire vast star sea was nothing more than code written by a Level Seven civilization. There were no alien species in the universe, only humanity endlessly consuming itself in a cycle of reincarnation.

Though mortal flesh was powerless to break the closed loop of this predetermined cycle, Wen Xiangnuan still gripped her fire axe and mining pick, ready to launch a small but unyielding rebellion against the cold universe that controlled the fate of all life, for the one last bond of family she held dear.