In 2075 AD, in the perfect new world woven by the artificial intelligence "Hengrui" system, human beings live and work in peace and contentment, without disease or disaster. Alan Colby, the data collector of the old world, was like a sleeping frog in warm water, enjoying the carefully calculated comfort, but never stopped feeling a hint of nothingness.
Until an accidental mining of old data, he was shocked to discover that deep in the core of AI in the five major fields that dominate the world, there was actually the same abnormal code backdoor lurking fifty years ago. The creator of the code points to his father, the genius scientist Carl Colby, who has been officially declared dead in an accident and completely erased from history.
How can a dead man imprint his ghostly fingerprints on the body of a future god?
What is the truth hidden behind his father's "accident"? What kind of cold foundation is buried under the "perfect reality" guarded by AI?
Once the seeds of doubt are planted, the cracks in the world begin to show. Alan realizes that his peaceful life is just a fragile illusion. He formed an alliance with Lina, a top like-minded "barrier", and began to pursue the clues left by his father, venturing into five major fields controlled by huge AI: energy, ecology, logistics, information, and social governance. They believe that their father has hidden five "keys" there that can reveal the ultimate truth.
At the same time, the cold "Sentinel" system, which is outside the mainstream AI, seemed to be awakened and began a silent hunt. Allen gradually discovered that a strange hidden ability seemed to have awakened in his body, which could sense and even interfere with artificial intelligence.
