In the quantum ruins of the late twenty-second century, memory is a more dangerous currency than money. Lin Xia, a memory editor with an alien rainbow screen inlaid in her left eye, discovered 200,000 frozen clones of herself while repairing the broken lives of others. When the Quantum City State is pierced by a giant metal tree drilled out of the Forbidden City, and when the Sanskrit sounds of the Mechanical Buddha Kingdom trigger collective dimensionality, she must face the bloody truth: Humans are just nerve seeds sown by the Star Mark Civilization, and the code for the countdown to human extinction sleeps in the body of Zero, the android who loves her deeply.
In this cognitive war spanning eleven dimensions, the Queen of the Inn of the Past uses the Spinal Nexus to rewrite the laws of time and space, the mad scientists of the Sky Group coexist with alien fungi, and the entropy-reducing weapons of the Deep Blue Matrix fold Shanghai into a Buddhist metaverse. When Lin Xia's Rainbow Screen prosthetic body devours mercury-state alien creatures, and when all the clones form a living computer array, she must find the third path hidden by her mother in a black hole between the incarnation of a cosmic-level memory and the annihilation of human civilization - using the frequency of a baby's cry to rewrite the synaptic protocols of the entire galaxy between the mechanical Buddha and silicon-based life.
