In the "New Kowloon City" of 2077, the development of technology is enough to digitize the soul and upload consciousness to the cloud. However, when the giant enterprise "Zhulong Group" almost monopolized everyone's "digital afterlife", a series of strange cases that could not be explained by science began to occur frequently: after the programmer wrote the last line of code, his body was hollowed out, leaving only a perfect human skin; the consciousness of the business tycoon was taken away by "ghosts" during the upload process, and he was trapped in an unknown corner of the server forever; androids began to dream about memories of past lives they had never experienced, and performed strange rituals according to ancient totems.
The protagonist **"Guan Ming"**, a promising bioprosthetic engineer, is now an "information medium" at the bottom of the city. He does not believe in ghosts and gods, only data, and specializes in handling cases that are officially defined as "supernatural pollution". He can interpret the resentments of the dead and the whispers of spirits from the chaotic data flow.
When he took over the investigation of a "painted skin" case, he met the mysterious intelligence dealer "Si Chen". She seems to know the origins of these "cyber monsters" very well. The two were forced to join forces and go deep into the dark underbelly of New Kowloon City, from the servers entangled with resentment to the "monster caves" hidden in the prosthetic black market. They discovered that these seemingly resurrected ancient spirits pointed to a larger conspiracy - the Zhulong Group tried to use ancient myths to complete the ultimate harvest of all human consciousness. The truth is hidden in the "Bionic Classic of Mountains and Seas" written with data and code.
