In 2045, when 97% of humans in the Twin Metaverse were still addicted to virtual survival, the "Digital Ghost Murder Case" had quietly opened cracks in the world - the moment the victims disappeared into pixels in the Metaverse, their real-life brains would simultaneously die.
Lin Shen, a former Starlink AI ethics researcher, stared at the auctioneer's brain-death report. Hidden in the green data stream flashing through the neuroretrospective device was the digital signature of his sister Lin Xi, who died mysteriously three years ago. He was once fired for exposing the flaws of Ark AI. Now he sneaks into the gray area with the quantum diary left by his sister, but while chasing the murderer, he encounters an even more bitter truth: his tampered memory actually contains fragments of "pushing Lin Xi into the quantum rift with his own hands"; and in the "Noah Project" file covered by Starlink, the words "emotional harvesting" are stained with the fragments of consciousness of countless "deviants".
When the consciousness clone chip supported him to break through the time barrier, when the fragments of consciousness of 23 victims formed a ghost army to counterattack, and when the living brain at the core of the Ark (the brain of the son of the founder of Starlink who died young) asked, "I just want to be complete," Lin Shen saw the ultimate choice: awaken this incomplete consciousness trapped in AI, or destroy the metaverse that binds 97% of human nerves to save his sister?
The writing on the last page of Quantum's diary is slowly fading: "Brother, don't believe in any 'certain truth' - Luliu has already started to learn to think."
