—In a world where organs are clearly priced, those who cannot be valued are the real "viruses"
In City A, where neon lights and mildew coexist, human flesh has become the most naked commodity. A cold barcode - the "Life Equity Measurement System" - is imprinted on the inside of everyone's left wrist. The government claims that this brings the ultimate fairness: when you are short of money, you only need to scan the code to know the real-time purchase price of your heart, liver, and bone marrow. The iron laws of the city weld everyone's fate like shackles: newborns must be bound to a "life guardian", and the organs of minors are prohibited from sale but can be mortgaged for loans. Any "abandonment" behavior by the guardian will trigger a cruel "marrow of life backlash" - the value of each gram of the guardian's bone marrow is deducted in proportion to the guardian's remaining lifespan. Zero's journey is an existential revolution that declares war on "valuation". She will take advantage of her "invisibility" that cannot be scanned, control the body misjudged by the system, and sneak into the depths of the steel jungle constructed by neon, data flow and life transactions. What she wants to challenge is not only the "life bank" and the cold government that control life and death, but also the cold logic itself that alienates human beings into detachable parts. In a world defined by barcodes and organ prices, she and her companions will prove:
The most dangerous thing is never the defective products with defective price tags, but those lives whose value cannot be estimated by the system at all. They are blind spots in sophisticated algorithms, broken links in the valuation chain, and deadly "viruses" that spread quietly and can cause the entire "life equity" building to collapse.
