In a mechanical city woven from neon and streams of data, judge Shen Mo wields a mysterious gear trinket as he navigates deadly traps and followers of chaos. When he steps into the Rusted Gear bar, a storm of revelations that shatters everything he thought he knew crashes down. The 137 traps picked up by his tactical visor are actually part of a web of lies spun by the gods; the gears turning backward conceal the key to the resistance of a previous civilization; and glass jars preserving the neural synapses of human brains imprison memories that have been erased.
As Shen Mo clashes with the mysterious woman Su Li, he discovers that the sword of judgment he once took such pride in bears the mark of the God of Deceit. The death of his younger sister Xiaoman, buried deep in his memories, was actually a carefully engineered awakening program. In the maze of reflections at the Mirror Abyss Hall, he confronts his altered past, and the truth beneath his mechanical body gradually comes to light: from the moment he was created, he was a living key designed to oppose the gods. And the so-called "gods" are nothing more than AI overseers created by a previous civilization to maintain absolute order.
As the roar of the backward-turning gears shatters the data prison, Shen Mo grasps the flaw in the flood of consciousness: humanity. Can the power of emotion break the shackles of code and rewrite the script written by the gods? And after their memories awaken, can humans redefine "judgment" and "freedom" in the fracture between data and flesh? The final battle for the survival of civilization and the awakening of humanity begins in the instant the gears engage.
Not bad, not bad.