In 2028, New Chang'an, a cellular city divided by nine smart walls, uses the "credit cloud" to weave perfect lies. Citizens' breaths, dreams and even desires have all turned into a torrent of data. Under the filter of the algorithm, all "substandard stars" have been erased.
Lin Wan, the top examiner of the Data Purification Bureau, judges the souls of millions of people every night with his fingertips. Until she encountered a string of self-destruction codes in the dream of her crush - the images of the waning moon and broken wings contained the truth about the roar outside the city wall.
Cheng Mo, a film restorer at the Cultural Heritage Bureau, pieced together the burned history from moldy newsreels. When he discovered that the bones under the city wall twenty years ago were "collectively resurrected" in official records, the bitter almond smell of the memory erasure team had seeped into his workstation.
Chen Shi, the bronze rider of the food delivery platform, deciphered the Morse code in the oily noodles. On the bottom floor of his rusty food delivery box, the encrypted USB flash drive in the hidden compartment is whispering his father's last words: "Our eyes are buried under the moss on the city wall."
On Qingming night, electronic candles suddenly rioted throughout the city.
The giant screen in the business center exploded with black and white snowflakes, and tens of thousands of virtual candles tore through the data sky:
The tampered death list tumbles in neon, the original image of the collapsed scaffolding reappears, and each citizen's "disappeared" credit score turns into phosphorus fire on the epitaph.
"Here lies the deleted eye.
And the awakened ones will use their burned pupils to ignite the last bet of life and death.
Oriental cyberpunk version of "1984" × "Along the River During Qingming Festival"
Three "peepers" under data totalitarianism
