Lord of Dreams

In the new era of cyber-apocalypse in 2536, dream capitalism rules the world. Undersea cables are woven into a giant brain-computer matrix, and 1,024 dream extraction towers stand on the ruins, extracting the subconscious energy of three million people every minute. The chaebols live forever in a quantum dream with a time flow rate of 1:8760, while the "miners" in the slums are being devastated by recursive nightmares, and their brain waves are cast into a consciousness anchor chain that maintains the dream life of the upper class. The amnesiac Xuzhou wakes up from the garbage dump. The Möbius band brand on his wrist hints at his identity as the "Ghost of the Abyss" - a former dream engineer who participated in the development of the core protocol of the virtual dream. The "Theseus Laboratory Explosion" three years ago not only destroyed his memory, but also annihilated the key formulas related to the survival of mankind. When the crust was torn apart by quantum aberrations and the chaebol launched the "Ark Protocol" in an attempt to convert all human consciousness into digital nourishment, Xuzhou met a mysterious boy with the same barcode on the back of his neck. This existence from the day of the laboratory explosion carries the complete memory map in the fragments of Xuzhou's dream. The truth gradually emerged: the so-called experimental accident was actually a consciousness vaccine designed by the team, and Xuzhou's amnesia was to allow the key formula to evolve subconsciously. When the chaebol's immortality system began to swallow reality, Xuzhou led the remaining rebels to launch a topological war. They must travel through the maze of recursively collapsing space-time and ignite a quantum bonfire that reconstructs the laws of the universe. Buried in the abyss of human collective subconsciousness are possibilities beyond the laws of physics - either Nirvana and rebirth in the graveyard of consciousness, or becoming the eternal residue in the stomach of the entropic nightmare.