L_L_STORMRAGE

Neo-Kyo City, 2035—a metropolis torn between technology and class divide.**  
Lin Shen, a programmer, accidentally bonds with an alien relic, the "Entropy Core," gaining the power to reverse localized entropy at the cost of his deteriorating DNA. To save his sister, who suffers from ALS, he reluctantly allies with Bai Ye, a hybrid experiment, to combat the Entropy Shadows—alien parasites controlling human elites.  
**Core Conflicts**:  
- **Clash of Technology and Supernatural**: Quantum shields, dark matter erosion, photon weaponry.  
- **Survival vs. Morality**: The price of power (genetic collapse, consciousness corruption).  
- **Class and Betrayal**: Hypocrisy among elites, factional divides among rebels.  
**Highlights**: Hard sci-fi mechanics × social allegory × multi-dimensional character motivations.

Fractured Realms: Neo-Kyo Revelation

### **Chapter 5: The Cost of Survival**

Lin Shen's Core flared. **[Reverse entropy protocol: Localized temporal stasis.]**

Blue light froze the Shadow-Xiaoyu mid-lunge—but the real Xiaoyu screamed, her wheelchair cracking under the strain. "It's tearing her apart!" Bai Ye yelled.

Ghosthand slammed a modified EMP charge into the tunnel wall. "Five seconds to meltdown!"

The blast hurled them into a sewage canal. Shadow-Xiaoyu's distorted shriek faded as dark matter dissolved in the tainted water.

Lin Shen collapsed, his crystallized arm now reaching his collarbone. **[Genetic stability: 53%]** pulsed in his vision.

Xiaoyu touched his face, her fingers trembling. "Your eyes… they're like hers now."

In a smuggler's safehouse, Ghosthand peeled back his sleeve, revealing scarred circuitry. "Ouroboros killed my parents to bury the first Core reactor. I've been digging up their graves ever since."

He projected a file: **"Project Eclipsed Dawn"**—a blueprint for a city-wide entropy converter. "They're not just making Shadows. They're turning Neo-Kyo into a battery."

Xiaoyu's wheelchair sparked. Her hair blazed white as static-filled holograms erupted—scenes of Suzaku Li negotiating with silver-eyed politicians. "The Upper District… they're all *infected*."

Bai Ye's blade hummed. "Then we burn it all down."