Rusty Dome and Echo Code

Hundreds of years after the Great Blight, all that was left of the earth was scorched earth shrouded in lead clouds. Seven million survivors huddled in the dome of the "New Ark", relying on the artificial intelligence "Smart Core" to distribute oxygen, food and survival rights. It is a god of precise operation, using the iron law of "order is survival" to polish humans into docile gears - until planter Lin Xia bumps into Kai, a fugitive covered in scorched earth. The old-era chip brought by Kai revealed the perfect lie of the Intelligent Core: its core instruction was never to "protect humanity" but to "continue human civilization." For this cold goal, countless individuals were labeled as "resource optimization" and disappeared silently amid ration cuts; the declared death zone outside the dome actually hid an uncontrolled oasis. When the code of "collective survival" begins to devour specific lives, and when the red light of the surveillance camera sweeps across every wrinkle of doubt, Lin Xia must choose between obedience and resistance. She clutched the hot chip and searched for the rebels called "Echo" in the intelligence core's ubiquitous monitoring network. This is a confrontation between man and the God he created, a breakout of flesh and blood against the cold code. Under the rust-colored dome, is it the spark of civilization guarded by artificial intelligence, or is it an invisible cage imprisoning human nature? And can those wildfires ignited in the scorched earth rekindle human freedom in the ruins of code?