Abyss Awakening

The story takes place in the near future in the late 2040s, when the world is in the midst of a "technological revolution." Society is prosperous on the surface, everything is interconnected, artificial intelligence is deeply involved in life, and biotechnology is advancing by leaps and bounds, especially in the fields of neural interfaces and consciousness mapping. But beneath the veneer of prosperity, a widespread social anxiety is spreading. This anxiety stems from "iteration fatigue" - people's numbness and fatigue towards technological updates and frequent changes in social rules, as well as vague uneasiness about environmental changes, such as unexplained local climate anomalies, frequent disconnection incidents of deep-sea detectors, and occasional strange witness reports in the city that are officially called "collective hallucinations". The core contradiction of the era is the tear between the rapid development of technology and the limitations of human cognition, as well as the fierce conflict between the fear of the 'unknown' and the desire to conquer. A top biological neuroscience research institution called "New Vision Technology", driven by this kind of enthusiasm to "conquer the last unknown territory", conducted a high-risk experiment aimed at breaking through the boundaries of the consciousness dimension, which unexpectedly became an opportunity to open the "abyss". This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.