In 2175, the sky city was suspended above the pollution dome, and the torrent of data and rust coexisted in the ruins on the ground.
Lu Xingye, a silent maintenance worker in the virtual arena, can read the afterimages of memories by touching the device with his fingertips - this secret makes him involved in a fatal whirlpool: the competition champions suffer brain collapse one after another, and the victims have strange quantum patterns engraved in their brains.
Shen Zhao, the cold-faced judge of the Bureau of Neuroscience, has a "silver butterfly" brain-computer interface on the back of his neck that can dismantle the data flow of lies. When she was investigating the memory smuggling case, the trauma of witnessing her mother's memory being erased in her childhood led to an 18-minute mysterious overlap with Lu Xingye's memory during the investigation.
