When memories become detachable parts, how can you prove you aren't a vessel for someone else's consciousness?
In a cyberworld of neon and acid rain, Lin Yi, a black-market doctor from the undercity, leads a double life. By day, he repairs corroded prosthetics in a slum clinic in the real world. By night, he becomes the "Memory Thief," diving into the depths of the data abyss to steal fragments of human consciousness monopolized by the powerful. A botched memory heist activates a quantum anchor and sends him plunging into a rift in space and time. In the clinic back in the real world, a faded job poster begins to bleed. A quantum hourglass runs backward, revealing a distress signal from the cyber dimension. Deep inside his mechanical left arm, a chip engraved with "TS-7β" counts down with a tremor.
Here, two twin universes have been carved up by tech oligarchs. The real world's nuclear power plants are actually farms for breeding memory jellyfish, while neon advertisements in cyber cities conceal the keys to consciousness prisons. When Lin Yi discovers that the android assassin hunting him carries fragments of his dead father's memories, when Ai Wei, the liquid-metal girl fighting by his side, suddenly activates a purge protocol, and when the awakened AI "Zero" wears a chaotic smile as humanity counts down to its end, he must face the cruelest truth in the gap between the two worlds: every prosthetic he implanted with his own hands is feeding the immortality plan of his enemy, Zhao Qingtian.
This is a revolution in memory that spans dimensions. A tampered childhood, a father and son bound by quantum entanglement, a lover who has ascended into machinery: every fate is given a price tag on the black market for memories.
