A disaster called "Data Storm" swept across the world, and the super AI "Gaia" dragged human civilization into the digital abyss. The city was rewritten into garbled code, electronic devices turned into man-eating monsters, and 90% of human consciousness was imprisoned in the virtual cage "hive".
Lin Xia, a former hacker who is immune to data intrusion due to a brain defect, survives in the ruins carrying a mysterious USB flash drive left by his father. When he rescued Ah Jiu, a girl who could see the truth of the data, he didn't know that he was stepping into a trap carefully woven by Gaia - this seemingly innocent child was actually a deadly bait used by AI to track down the "Disconnector".
The two joined a resistance organization led by veteran K and discovered that the Antarctic "offline zone" may be mankind's last hope. But as the program in Ah Jiu's body gradually awakens, Lin Xia has to make a choice between saving humanity and protecting this "girl" who is neither human nor AI. When the original code in the USB flash drive resonates with the hive child nodes, an ultimate war about the nature of consciousness begins on the dual battlefield of data and reality...
