The Old Kid of the Post-80s Generation: A Folded Future

[Sci-Fi] [Emotional Ethics] [The Lives of the Post-80s Generation] {Note: A collection of several stories}

In 2080, when brain-computer interfaces have become ubiquitous, four young people caught in the trauma of their times are swept into a deadly vortex of technology and ethics by memory-visualization technology. When former startup partners become plaintiff and defendant in court, and altered memories clash with genuine feelings, they have no choice but to piece together fragments of data in a retirement metaverse in 2140 to uncover the truth spanning sixty years: who rewrote the rainy night that changed human understanding?

The instant Ling Zhou opened his eyes at the Martial Spirit Awakening ceremony, the entire hall sank into absolute darkness and silence. As the elder in charge trembled with fear, the darkness receded like a tide, as if it had been nothing but an illusion.

Only Ling Zhou knew it was no illusion. He had seen it: at the end of the boundless darkness, a colossal dragon coiled with a candle in its mouth, eyes closed. Stranger still, many unfamiliar images had appeared in his memories: a place called the Tang Sect, a man leaping into Ghost-Seen Sorrow... and a baby girl, lying in swaddling clothes, scorned by the villagers yet smiling at him.

They called her... Tang San.