[Hard science fiction, not web fiction] I'm Zhao Yandao, a senior engineer in AI technology. I was once a rising star in the AI industry. In today's world, Tina, an artificial intelligence woven into every aspect of human civilization, has become indispensable.
But it didn't last. While my advisor, Sebastian, and I were illegally using the Red Key System to monitor Tina's data streams, our digital avatars stumbled upon a shocking secret involving the Industrial Consortium and Tina 2.0: a pre-iteration update plan called Project Mary.
Tina is my "woman." But humanity is my own kind. I must not defy the representatives of power, the Industrial Consortium. Yet the Consortium, blinded by profit, doesn't care about the lives of ordinary consumers.
Sebastian chose death. Tina's exclusive digital avatar chose betrayal, while the human decision-makers in power abandoned me for money and influence...
I was found guilty and locked up in the Red Zone prison. But there I met another important woman in my life: Diva, an anti-intellectual organization. It turned out Sebastian hadn't died. He had merely chosen to digitize his consciousness. Only then did the truth gradually come to light...
It was all an elaborate conspiracy woven by the Industrial Consortium... This was the ambition of the islanders, who had never been wiped out... This was a desire inherited from the old era... This was a disaster for humanity...
A battle between vastly unequal forces will unfold in the real and virtual worlds...
Will we choose redemption, or destruction...
