Recursive Abyss

Xu Chen, 27 years old, is a scavenger - a free man who enters the recursive space to perform tasks. He is calm and efficient, and people in the circle say that his intuition is as good as that of a rookie. Until abnormalities begin to accumulate: the old scars on the back of his hands will glow in space; unknown entities are always approaching him; he can sense data flows that others cannot see. The old classmates and neighbors in my memory - some have moved away, some don't remember them, and some... Don't exist at all. An experimental fragment of Protocol Zero has surfaced: Twenty years ago, a scientist completely digitized consciousness and created the source of all recursive spaces. After a system failure, he was written back into a cloned body - losing all his memory and living an ordinary life for twenty-seven years. That person is Xu Chen. He is not someone trapped in the system. He is the system itself. Regulators want to use him as the ultimate weapon; family seekers want to use him in exchange for clues; another person deep in space is sending an invitation to merge. Xu Chen must answer - if I am just a piece of code, do I still have the right to decide what I become? This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.