The Chaos Memory Exchange

Synopsis of "Memory Mirage: The Era of the Xuanhuang Pearl" When the antique pocket watch belonging to office worker Shen Yuan suddenly freezes every smile in the city, he discovers that the Ruins City he calls home is nothing more than a “memory farm” meticulously built by the Mirage Civilization. Human emotions are harvested and sold as commodities; citizens’ memories are pawned and altered at will, and even “smiles” are templates controlled by a program. The inconspicuous pocket watch against his chest holds the Xuanhuang Pearl, which can purify memories, and seals an astonishing secret left behind by his grandmother: he is Clone No. 73, created to fight a catastrophe on a cosmic scale. To uncover the truth, Shen Yuan is forced into the ruins of memory. There, he forms an alliance with Sang Biao, a proud descendant of the memory-devouring beast royal family; A Yue, a girl whose memories are gradually falling apart; and the mysterious “Memory Keepers.” They travel through memory bubbles containing everything from Republican-era dance halls to interstellar battlefields, battling Startrail Hunters who can control memory rays and confronting stitched-together monsters pieced from broken memories. They must also unlock the Xuanhuang Pearl’s forbidden power of “memory grafting,” at the cost of losing more and more of their own memories. As the floating city of the Startrail Temple crashes down, the shadow of the Void Memory Devourers spreads from the depths of the universe. This monster, which feeds on the memories of civilizations, has long been raised as a weapon by the Mirage Civilization, and Earth is nothing more than its “memory granary.” As the greatest memory black hole takes shape above the city, allies forget their pasts as their memories shatter, and the fleets of the Mirage Civilization and the tentacles of the Memory Devourers reach for Earth at the same time, Shen Yuan finally understands: his grandmother’s “Civilization Seed Plan” was never meant to let him save the world. It was meant to let humanity, in forgetting and remembering, battle