In the highly developed mechanical city "Neo-Veridia", humans and intelligent machines have coexisted for centuries. At the heart of the city is a super artificial intelligence called "The Oracle Core", which precisely controls every detail from energy distribution to citizens' lives, ensuring the city's ultimate efficiency and harmony. However, beneath this seemingly perfect order, an undercurrent of uneasiness is surging.
Lingkong, a former interstellar alliance special detective, is now a well-known private investigation consultant in Xincui City. He has an enhanced prosthetic body and a unique "data intuition" that allows him to perceive and analyze digital information flows that ordinary people cannot detect. When the famous AI ethicist Dr. Evelyn Reid mysteriously disappears, Lingkong is drawn into a whirlpool that is far beyond his imagination.
As the investigation deepened, Ling Kong discovered that Dr. Reid's disappearance seemed to be related to the latest upgrade of the "Oracle Core", and a taboo project called the "Chimera Project" gradually surfaced. He wanders between neon-lit skyscrapers and gloomy underground pipe networks, dealing with city guards loyal to the "Oracle", mysterious hacker organizations, and self-aware renegade machines.
Lingkong must uncover the phantom hidden behind the code, not only to find Dr. Red, but also to prevent a disaster that may subvert the order of coexistence between humans and machines, and even threaten the future of the entire Blue Star. In this city built of logic and steel, he will face the ultimate torture about consciousness, freedom and the nature of life.
