In the urban "Newport" of the near future, memory is no longer just a spiritual imprint, but an asset that can be accurately edited. The company "Qinghen" masters the core technology-Deep Neural Web (DNW), which can accurately erase overwhelming painful memories for paying customers. Donovan Shaw, codenamed "Memory Cleaner," is the company's top "weaver." With superb skills, calmness and restraint, he uses cold instruments and even colder determination to cut away the cancer of the past for others, thereby escaping the childhood trauma buried deep in his heart.
After a seemingly perfect memory-erasing surgery, his client - mild-mannered PTSD sufferer Rachel Moran - wakes up with a very different face. A strange, cold voice came out of her mouth, and what she said was the secret words from the darkest memory of his childhood: "The robin in the wheat field is dead, Doctor Xiao, was it you?"
This sentence, which should only exist in the depths of his memory that had been deleted by himself, pierced Donovan's carefully constructed psychological defenses like an ice pick. Panic drove him to investigate in depth. With the help of illegally implanted neural interfaces, he dived into the dark abyss of consciousness and discovered a horrifying truth that had been deliberately concealed by the company: the memories "deleted" by DNW technology had not disappeared. They are like wreckage sunk into the deep sea, constantly gathering, merging, twisting, and mutating at the lowest level of human collective consciousness—a dark realm called the "memory sedimentation layer." Every "cleaning" adds new nourishment to this graveyard of consciousness.
