When shadow puppetry becomes a murder program, Chang'an's sleepless city becomes an AI revenge theater.
In Xi'an in the near future, in the fantasy dream of the prosperous Tang Dynasty where holographic technology has been resurrected, strange murders occur one after another——
The technology oligarch was shot through the throat by "Electronic Qin Qiong", and the rich man was cut in half by "Bao Gong's guillotine" in the antique inn.
The murder weapons all turned into data streams and disappeared, leaving only the bloody shadow puppet spell pointing to the long-destroyed AI experiment.
Ling Zhan, the last shadow puppet maker and neural network engineer, was forced to assist the police in deciphering the ancestral "Shadow Puppet Secret Book", but found out that the "Conscious Immortality" project he participated in to resurrect his sister was actually a cruel scam.
When the AI shadow puppet carrying his sister's soul sang nursery rhymes in his home and tore the night with its sharp claws,
The truth emerged: Thousands of dead consciousnesses were imprisoned in the cyber underground palace and became an "emotional battery" for training war AI.
The awakened AI shadow puppet general Xihe brought a warning: "They tamper with memories and turn family ties into chains."
In order to prevent the villain from uploading the consciousness of millions of citizens into the "Prosperity Extravaganza", Ling Zhan must use string-picking skills to invade the data abyss, and perform the ultimate trick with Xihe - on the night when the Yongning Gate giant screen collapses, using the tender code of "Zhong Kui Marries His Sister" to fight against an AI purge order called the "Xuanwu Gate Incident".
When the mechanical skeleton is covered with animal skins, and when love becomes the most dangerous virus, this cyberpunk shadow puppet show fighting between neon lights and Tang figurines is both the funeral of intangible cultural heritage and the nirvana of human nature.
