In the "new ocean" of the future city, technology and capital jointly weave an invisible "canopy" - a global monitoring and social credit rating system driven by the quantum AI "Prometheus". It is everywhere, quantifying everyone's value, controlling the flow of capital, and maintaining absolute order at the top of the pyramid.
Chen Yuan, a financial analyst with a bleak future. During an unexpected data storm, his brain established a mysterious link with the remains of an abandoned quantum server. This "system" called "Echo" allows him to capture fragments of future information leaked in the "general-AI" network - "possibilities" about the future that are discarded due to redundancy in calculations.
Through "echoes", Chen Yuan can foresee the stock price crash in the next second, understand the fatal weaknesses of his competitors, and "trade" the future that should have been erased. He jumped from an ant struggling at the bottom of the city to a mysterious trader who caused turmoil in the financial market.
However, his rise soon attracted the attention of the real controllers behind the "Top Curtain". They are the "chess players" who use "Prometheus" to play with the world, and regard Chen Yuan as a "bug" that disrupts the chess game. A silent war over information, capital and the future begins.
In this game, Chen Yuan not only has to face pervasive technological surveillance and the joint strangulation of business giants, but also faces the torture of human nature. When he has the power to peer into the future, will he choose to become the next ruthless "chess player", or will he risk everything and use this "echo" from the future to smash this hypocritical "canopy"?
