In a cyberpunk city rotting beneath neon lights, memories are currency. To keep his sister Lin Xiaoyu alive in a cryogenic pod, legendary mercenary Lin Mo becomes a “memory hunter,” prowling the black market. When he takes a job to steal the emotional memories of a 14-year-old clone, C-73, he stumbles into a shocking conspiracy: the client is none other than Xiaoyu’s surviving consciousness! And buried in C-73’s brain is “Pandora,” an apocalyptic weapon developed by their father, Lin Yuanshan, capable of spreading a memory virus worldwide through brainwaves. The powerful achieve immortality through memory transplants, while the poor have their neural cords extracted to pay off debts. The shot that supposedly “accidentally killed” his sister was actually part of a consciousness-erasure program designed by their father. It destroyed Pandora’s carrier and killed the remnants of Xiaoyu’s consciousness. Through a bloody battle in a church and a confrontation inside the world of memories, Lin Mo uncovers an even more despairing truth: he himself is Pandora’s core, while Xiaoyu was merely the sugar coating around the plague. As Eden Tower flashes the ad “A New Era Begins with Forgetting,” five bullets engraved with his enemies’ names are already loaded into his revolver. The sixth is for his own temple. Memory trading is accelerating the death of his brain cells. Transmitted through a military teddy bear, Xiaoyu’s consciousness sends instructions back through time to redeem him: saving humanity means destroying your own loved one with your own hands. When memory becomes a magazine, every truth must be loaded with flesh and blood. And the deadliest bullet was buried in the abyssal fissure of his neural circuits long before he pulled the trigger.
