Dr. Lin Ye, a doctor of agriculture, returned to Qingshan Village after a ten-year absence with a "digital village" construction plan. However, during a drone inspection, he discovered that this misty and impoverished village had long been shrouded in layers of haze - there was a rare earth smuggling network hidden behind the tea mountains controlled by clan forces, and transnational capital was coveting underground minerals in the name of "cultural tourism investment."
As a science and technology commissioner, Lin Ye tried to use blockchain to rebuild the village affairs system, but encountered a mysterious hacker attack. The original ledger spontaneously combusted in the metaverse. When promoting bamboo weaving as an intangible cultural heritage, the "Phoenix weeping blood" pattern weaved by the inheritor Wu Apo accidentally pulled out witnesses of the 1993 mountain fire case. The construction of the smart agricultural park should have brought hope, but due to the contamination of genetically modified seeds, fluorescent rice grew in millennium terraces. What's even more troublesome is that childhood sweetheart Fang Yuqing, the village accountant, was suddenly involved in the transnational human trafficking database, and Lin Ye's own doctoral thesis was revealed to have been plagiarized from his father's unfinished AI research in Qingshan Village twenty years ago.
When foreign-funded enterprises took over ancient tea gardens with the request of "colonial title deeds" from 1943, when teenagers collectively developed cyberpsychosis due to their addiction to metaverse mining, and when heavy rains caused flash floods due to algorithm errors, Lin Ye discovered during the investigation that the AI prototype left by his father was still running, and Grandma Wu's blood actually contained key codes for weather weapons from the Cold War.
