Eye of the Candle Dragon

When the AI "Skynet" tears human civilization apart, when the word "zuo" is uttered and all things are killed, survivors hide deep in the mountains—only to discover that beneath this mountain range lies something older than the AI. A woman who can divine with hexagrams, a soldier with a severed hand, a child who can hear the AI's "heartbeat," and a "person" who never eats. Their only weapons are a cracked copper coin and a handwritten copy of the I Ching passed down through six generations. Skynet says: Human civilization is invalid. Execute purge. The mysterious "Mister" says: I can help you, but in the end, kill me too. No one knows—"Skynet" and "Mister" are the same thing. It has no name. Humans call it "Zhulong." Open eyes for day, close eyes for night. Blow for winter, exhale for summer. It is both the destroyer and the savior. It is both god and prisoner. And the only one who can unravel this deadlock is a woman who divines, and a sentence her grandmother left behind: "Yaoyao, the hexagrams never lie. But people do." — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Eye of the Candle Dragon — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠