Melting City

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To the end of the world.

.o0o.

Through his scope, he could clearly read the words on the billboard, despite its peeling colours and inverted position.

‘Let the Main City’s sunlight wake you every morning’.

It was a real estate advertisement.

It was anyone’s guess for how long the billboard had remained in this state since Lian Chuan first passed through this place, as if proving its slogan, “Let the Main City’s sunlight wake you up every morning”, to be merely a collapsing dream.

The Main City no longer had the space or supplies to accommodate more people.

.o0o.

Lian Chuan woke up to the unchanging system greeting, commencing yet another mundane day as the most powerful “Hyena” of the Main City’s “cleanup squad”.

He was tasked with ridding the Main City, now short of natural resources, of its “redundant” population. However, as the annual “Festival Day” of the Main City approaches, the unvarying life takes a turn. Beneath the city’s unusual projects, are there hidden schemes? What secrets do the wild and unconstrained Travellers hold? Meanwhile, the “Bats” residing on the Black Iron Plains beyond the Main City watch them covetously from the sides like a tiger eyeing its prey…

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Melted City
Rong Cheng
熔城
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Seafall
Seafall
July 16, 2020
Status: c2
Hello! Personally, I find the novel interesting, it had the similar vibes of the dystopian trope from the English movies, Soylent Green and Equilibrium.

Anyways, the tls are still in the starting chapters, and is in the stages of introducing the work's background which might be seemed boring.

Lastly, until you've finished reading about 10 chapters, you shouldn't trust its ratings here on NU. It's way too biased.
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ghoststories
ghoststories rated it
January 28, 2023
Status: Completed
A very different genre than Wu Zhe's other works (at least as far as I know), but the excellent quality and captivating storytelling is the same as always.

Since the synopsis is vague, here is my brief, two-sentence intro: In a dark, futuristic world on the verge of collapse, some believe an exit will appear to allow people to escape to a place outside the darkness, some believe there is a way to live on after the world is swallowed by darkness, and some believe it’s better just to die along... more>> with the world. In this setting, the two main characters must find themselves and the path to survival.

The beginning is a little confusing, but very well written, so it makes me want to keep reading and find out more. The world is revealed a little at a time, We learn the names of things but need to wait the image to go with them to be revealed, because there are so many things that don’t exist in our world, and that I haven’t seen often in books. There were also some hidden bits of dark humor that I appreciated a lot.

As usual, Wu Zhe is a master at capturing the complexities of human relationships. We sometimes love someone even after finding out they’ve deceived us; we sometimes love someone even having been trained our whole lives to hate them. We sometimes rely on others to define who we are, yet at the same time, we are independent and are ourselves regardless of who others tell us we should be.

A good balance of action and mystery and character development and relationship development and the purely theoretical. Gets pretty cerebral in the second half. By the end of the book, I still had questions, but I didn’t feel like the book was incomplete or missing anything. It felt very intentional and thought-provoking; I think the author meant for us to continue pondering the answers to these questions.

Also, I have to say Ning Gu is one of my favorite characters out of all the webnovels I’ve read. Definitely in the top 5 list. Perfect balance of righteous, rebellious, silly, badass, thoughtful, and cute. <<less
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crimson Heart
crimson Heart rated it
October 4, 2024
Status: c20
Too much intricate knowledge and concepts I couldn't understand.

20 chs in but it made my head hurt from all the things going on. Too much info dump and the sci Fi themes that are just too much.

It is a dystopian novel, but reading it felt like a chore, like I really need to concentrate like I'm studying for exams and I don't want that.

... more>> I don't like books that consumes a lot of my mental strength hehe.

But the world building is good and I can see where the author is going.

Like ml, Ning gu.

Anyway I'm stopping for now, maybe later I'll pick it up when I've got time <<less
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