In the cyberpunk city of Chang'an, shrouded in eternal night, the quantum matrix has collapsed and the embers of civilization are flickering. The youngest civilization restoration specialist, Xuanzang, follows the mechanical oracle of the Buddha into an SSS-grade quantum prison, where he awakens a war machine sealed away for a thousand years: the mechanical ape Sun Wukong. To reboot the crumbling Hongmeng Core, this unlikely pair sets out on a journey through torrents of data.
They must collect the interstellar key of Marshal Tianpeng, the deep-sea access code of General Juanlian, and the dark protocol of Lady White Bone. But they don't know that every step takes them deeper into the vortex of a struggle between gods and demons: the Heavenly Court's laser fleet seals off the skies, Lady White Bone's mechanical army watches them hungrily, and Meng Po in the Netherworld data center quietly spins the wheel of fate.
When the Golden Cudgel becomes a quantum blade and the Tightening Spell turns into a neural chip, this adventure, which will determine whether civilization survives, has long since outgrown the original purpose of the journey west. The truth of the forgotten ancient battlefield and the power struggle concealed by the gods will both be revealed with a crash at the end of the data torrent. But can they find true salvation in the struggle between freedom and chains?
