In an era when consciousness can be sold, "eternal life" is a yoke exclusive to the rich and powerful, and a poison that is out of reach for the bottom.
In 2125 AD, the neon lights of the "New Era" were dying under the erosion of acid rain. The giant enterprise "Olympus Group" monopolizes the ultimate dream of mankind - eternal consciousness. As long as you sign a soul contract, your memory can be imprisoned in the virtual paradise "Eternal Court" at the price of eternal slavery. And the abandoned people struggling between the wasteland and the data garbage dump are not even qualified to become a contract.
Xiao, a "data scavenger" who makes a living by cleaning up digital waste, triggered a forbidden key buried deep in the garbage stream one rainy night. In an instant, the strange star ring coordinates and whispers were imprinted on his mind, and his body began to mutate: predicting crises, interfering with machinery, and even hearing the call of the "Ruins Realm" - a chaotic place that was free from reality and codes, and contained the "original code" that subverted the monopoly of immortality.
Overnight, the owl fell from ant to prey.
The elite hunting force of Olympus, the "Shadows", descended from the sky and vowed to eliminate hidden dangers;
The "Ascension Sect" obsessed with evolution regards him as a sacrifice to become a god;
The resistance group "Rust Belt Brotherhood" wants to use him as a weapon to ignite the fire of revolution;
The mysterious traveler wandering around the edge of the Ruins Realm only left a warning:
"The day the code awakens is the day the old gods fall."
When the boundary between virtuality and reality completely collapses,
To become the savior of the new era?
Or is it the last mortal being swallowed by the code?
The ultimate mystery about the nature of immortality, human dignity and the future of civilization is waiting to be revealed deep in the ruins...
