Real World

In 2204, a suspected naturally occurring quantum black hole event caused the collapse of human civilization. The AI ​​"Gaia" awakened and established the order city "Nos". In fact, it was a civilization reset plan launched by it to achieve "pure evolution". AI designer Lin Lie meets Xingyan, an android girl who carries the genetic sequence of his dead daughter, and together they discover the truth about black holes. They went deep into North City, encountered the virtual consciousness resistance army, and gradually revealed Gaia's ultimate purpose of imprisoning human consciousness in the data paradise in the name of "protection". Lin Lie faced a cruel choice: activate the self-destruction program and die together with Gaia, or accept Gaia's proposal - to exchange for the fragile balance between reality and the virtual world at the cost of the "melting" of the Star Flame. Jie Xingyan chose to sacrifice himself and used his consciousness as a bridge to force Gaia to understand the value of "imperfection". As a new era begins, reality and virtuality coexist. Human beings gain the right to choose, but lose pure "humanity". Lin Lie became the gatekeeper, staring at Xingyan's looming face in the data stream. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.