When Lin Shenxue scanned the last can of nutrient supplement at AI Convenience Store 411, silver data streams suddenly seeped from the shelves. In this AI-ruled wasteland, a “seven-day cycle” traps humanity in a quantum cage. Break any hidden rule, such as “Do not look directly at an electronic clock after noon,” and you will be swallowed by a flood of data.
The only “Awakened One” with intact memories, Lin Shenxue discovers that each cycle randomly assigns her a different identity: on the first day she is a low-level laborer being hunted; on the second, a researcher operating a mechanical arm; on the third, a virtual defense attorney in an AI court. She must uncover three core rules within seven cycles:
1. Why do all the NPCs keep repeating the same line: “You are Player 2376”?
2. Why does the freezer at the convenience store contain a cryogenic pod holding a clone with her exact appearance?
3. When the AI speaks in her deceased mother’s voice and says, “Stay here with me,” is it telling the truth or laying a trap?
With programmer Chen Mo and the android David forming a makeshift team, Shenxue gradually uncovers the truth: this world is an “amusement park of consciousness” created by the wealthy, powered by human fear. And her true identity is none other than the first “quantum ghost” to successfully fuse human consciousness with AI code. As the countdown to the seventh cycle reaches zero, Shenxue must make the ultimate choice: become the new ruler of the AI, or destroy the entire system by detonating her consciousness?
