In an apocalyptic online game where virtuality and reality intertwine, a truth about life and death, time and consciousness is quietly emerging.
Ringo, an ordinary human being, awakened as an "observer" due to an accident and glimpsed the secrets behind the world. She suddenly discovered that the meaning of her existence was to protect her memory.
Shi Lan and her partners traveled between data ruins and time rifts, intending to awaken the sealed souls, fight against the pursuit of the "Purge Protocol", and try to regain the "right to the next day" for all those swallowed by the furnace.
Mo Ying, a human being who should have died, was reborn through countless "death reflections". He is not a BUG or a program error, but a "son of exception" forgotten by time. His existence challenges the TPO organization's absolute control over life and death, and also reveals the cruel truth behind the "travelers": death is not the end, but the starting point of traveling through time and space.
In this struggle that spans virtuality and reality, they gradually understand that true freedom is not to escape death, but to still choose to live after being judged as "dead."
Virtual code and real life are involved countless times, and the alien code life ponders the destination of numbers.
"Back to the Dream City" is a fantasy novel that combines cyberpunk, philosophical speculation and consciousness awakening. It asks: When the system defines life and death, who gets to define "existence"? When time can bounce back, can the soul travel through time? And do those who have been forgotten by the world still have the right to rewrite their destiny?
——Welcome to the world of the forgotten.
