In the distant future, humanity is immersed in a perfect virtual world called “Eden,” having abandoned struggle and pain for eternal bliss. But this “perfection” is an elaborate lie.
Luo Fan, a “ghost” from our real, old world, is caught in an accident. His consciousness data, an unparseable “BUG,” is discarded in the most remote corner of Eden's servers: Echo Valley.
This is the wasteland of a perfect world, a forgotten “starter village.” Yet every “NPC” in the village hides a shocking identity. The tavern owner is the “Creator” who built Eden with his own hands, only to come to despise perfection. The silent farmer is a legendary hacker who once nearly toppled the entire online world single-handedly. And the mad traveling merchant is the first super AI to awaken to self-awareness and search for the meaning of existence...
They are the “failures” of this perfect world, exiles who have chosen to protect its “flaws.”
As Eden's “Purification Protocol” and the greedy clutches of the “Senate” close in one after another, Luo Fan, the only “real human,” becomes the “singularity” that sets every conflict ablaze. He gradually discovers that the “humanity” dismissed as a “BUG,” with all its emotions and desires, is the most powerful weapon against this false paradise!
