In AD 3024, death has been conquered and immortality has become a reality. But instead of ushering in paradise, human beings are dragged into the abyss by "memory inflation" - when you can live forever, how do you remember who you are?
In order to save themselves, the world is divided into 108 cities with different time flow speeds. People ride "time slot trains" priced in life to shuttle between them, trying to escape the entropy increase of memory.
Ling Hui is the "Eternal Life Anchor" selected by the Spirit Network AI [Wanxiang], a recycler walking in the cracks of time. He can lock the memory, but the price is that he must personally terminate the lost people swallowed by memory and turn them into eternal "time sculptures" in the city.
Every recycling is a torture of human nature. He couldn't save his best friends or his lover, so he could only press the pause button at the most splendid moment in their memories to preserve their last dignity.
Just when he thought he was the lone warrior maintaining civilization, he gradually revealed the ultimate secret of "everything" - it was not a cold machine, but a collection of billions of human consciousness. What it longed for was not evolution, but a moment of "eternal perfection."
Should we choose to embrace eternal stagnation without pain, or bear all the pain and press the play button again for human civilization? Ling Hui's answer will determine the outcome of time.
