Beneath the towering steel shadows of the New Era City-State Alliance, the sludge of Neon Abyss’s Silt District is the only cradle Kai has ever known. An orphan who survives by stealing data with a military-grade cybernetic eye called Night Owl and a mysterious Ghost Net, he thinks he has stolen nothing more than a crumb of information about the legendary Other Shore Project. He has no idea he has lit the fuse that will consume him.
**The trap detonates in the data abyss!** The highest-level Sweepers close in one after another. Cold scanning beams pierce the acid rain, announcing the deadly fury of Omega Life, the monstrous corporation that controls the technology behind “immortality uploads.”
On the run, he encounters Ellie, a “perfect specimen” who has fallen from her ivory tower. Her chip is failing, and the perfect prison she created is now hunting her. He also meets Rex, an avenger from the Rust Wastes whose fists yearn to smash the city-states’ vampiric pipelines. Three ghosts cast aside by the System are forced to travel together on the edge of despair.
They take refuge in the Old Library of a crumbling age, piecing together the truth from data ruins. The fragments point to a staggering lie: the immortality promised by the Other Shore Project is actually a scheme to turn billions of human minds into **the eternal slaves of the Chosen!**
And Kai’s cybernetic eye, capable of touching forbidden networks; Ellie’s “humanity,” dismissed as a malfunction; and Rex’s fury, steeped in the blood and tears of the wasteland, have become the only blades sharp enough to tear the lie apart.
**Delving into the rotting foundations beneath the gleaming city-state’s “ecological cocoon,” they seek the last bearer of the truth: the rogue Dr. Ayana. Waiting for them are upgraded hunting weapons known as “Shades,” and a darkness powerful enough to shatter their faith...
