Time setting: In the near future of 2077, mankind has entered the "post-carbon era". Climate change has caused the polar glaciers to melt, rising sea levels have submerged coastal cities, and land resources are extremely scarce.
Setting: The story revolves around the ruins of Shanghai, a city that was once China's largest port and is now a giant steel island floating in the East China Sea. The island is dotted with genetic modification laboratories, nanomaterial factories and consciousness data centers.
Basic background: Human society is ruled by the "Dome Alliance" composed of three major technology groups, which controls the lifeline of the global economy through brain-computer interface chips. Ordinary people live in closed ecological domes, and the surface world becomes a technological waste disposal site.
Story summary
Broken Home: Marine geologist Lin Xia discovered the ruins of an ancient civilization while exploring the seabed, and accidentally triggered the quantum resonance device, causing the consciousness data of her sister Lin Xiaoman to be tampered with.
Forbidden love: Lin Xia encounters Jiang Lin, a modified man with short silver hair in an abandoned gene bank. His true identity is actually Xu Chengye, the "Lord of the Dome" who disappeared seven years ago.
Data Maze: The two sneaked into the consciousness data center and discovered that human consciousness was being converted into energy to supply the AI system. Lin Xiaoman's consciousness fragments reveal the truth about the destruction of ancient civilization.
Moment of Awakening: Jiang Lin activates the self-destruction program and engages in a decisive battle with the Dome Alliance. Lin Xia integrates the energy of ancient civilizations in quantum resonance, and finally completely liberates human consciousness from the data cage.
