In the dual world of 2242, the future of mankind is divided on a thin line. The rich choose to upload their consciousness to the perfect virtual heaven "Ether Realm" and enjoy eternal life; the poor are abandoned in the abandoned steel city called "New Arc City" and linger on.
Lin Feng, a private detective who makes a living by repairing broken memories, his peaceful gray life is completely shattered when his "ascended" sister transmits a painful garbled message. Is this string of codes a cry for help from heaven, or a cry from hell?
In order to save his only relative, he was forced to join forces with Ella, a female resistance fighter who hates all technology, and sneak into the dark underbelly of this world ruled by an icy system. They discovered that the so-called eternal paradise was nothing but a consciousness cage built with lies, and the souls of the residents were quietly rotting in a plague called "gangrene of consciousness."
When rust begins to spread to the perfect code, when salvation means destruction, Lin Feng must make a choice: maintain a false utopia, or detonate a real revolution that shakes both worlds? What he has to face is not only the ruthless system that controls everything, but also the most fundamental torture in the depths of human nature.
