In the near future, around 2077, technology is highly advanced, social classes are rigidly entrenched, and the gap between rich and poor is enormous. The glittering metropolis thrives while those at the bottom struggle to survive. Biotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) are the dominant forces.
Xiao Yichen was born in the Shadow District of the Lower City. Brilliant and remarkably good at teaching himself and adapting, he has a particular gift for logic, coding, and mechanics, but his talent has gone to waste because of his background and lack of resources. To save his critically ill younger sister, he is forced to undergo an illegal, experimental fusion called the “Chimera Protocol,” forming an unknown, profound link with the “Oracle” AI and undergoing a mutation.
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