Cuttlefish That Loves Diving

In this latest work by Lord of the Mysteries author, Cuttlefish That Loves Diving, be prepared for a well-thought out and detailed apocalyptic, cyberpunk world with a setting superseding Lord of the Mysteries!
Our protagonist, Shang Jianyao, is crazy—literally crazy, at least that's what the doctors said. Living in a huge, underground building of Pangu Biology, one of the few remaining factions in this apocalyptic wasteland known as the Ashlands, he acts in unfathomable ways that's head-scratching, comical, and shrewd. So is he really crazy? Probably.
He has a grand dream: to save all of humanity.
Intricately tied to this dream is something everyone in the Ashlands believes in: Deep in a particular ruin buried away by danger and famine, a path leading to a new world awaits. To step into the new world, one only needs to find a special key and open that certain door.
There, the land is bountiful, as if milk and honey flows freely. 
The sunlight is dazzling, as if all coldness and darkness are washed away. 
The people will no longer have to face desolation, monsters, infections, mutations, and all kinds of dangers.
There, children are joyous, adults are happy, everything is fine as they are supposed to be.
Every Antiquarian, Ruin Hunter, and Historian roaming the Ashlands knows: That's the New World.

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Shang Jianyao applauded Yama Tiger. "That's some nice thinking."

He then said, "Those people are also locked up here but on different floors."

"As expected…" Yama Tiger slowly exhaled and said in an abnormally weak voice, "You can visit them. They should have encountered something similar to me."

Shang Jianyao agreed and said in anticipation, "One of them might've seen the criminal before."

He had always been a proactive person. He immediately bade Yama Tiger farewell and headed to another floor.

After making his rounds, Shang Jianyao gained a preliminary understanding of the other people's situations. They were either the batch of New World powerhouses who had advanced rather early or the kind that ruled over their own territories. The thing they had in common was that they lacked the corresponding understanding of the New World. Furthermore, they didn't have friends who could help them when they first arrived.

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