Imaginary Number Scars

In New Shanghai, a city of neon and steel in 2075, delivery rider Lin Chen hides a secret beneath his secondhand cybernetic implants, a brainwave that is the only “blank frequency” immune to memory erasure. One fatal delivery reveals that he is the “living relic” of a quantum laboratory explosion three years ago, and draws him into the Sky Dome Group’s century-spanning Observer Project.

The cold and beautiful cybernetic assassin Shen Zhaoxue is ordered to hunt him down, but during their clashes, she discovers that both their memories have been sealed by the same bronze key. As quantum scars spread across the Tower of Time and mechanical octopuses swim through the data deep, the two enemies must join forces to resist the dimensional invasion of imaginary-number creatures.

This is a high-stakes gamble for the survival of civilization: rewrite the Founding Day Protocol of 1935, or let a million universes collapse in the final act of observation? When the bronze tree takes root in the imaginary sea, they will finally understand: true freedom begins with facing a life that has been rewritten.