In Xinhai City in 2049, a series of "hippocampus removal cases" stirred up the whole city: the ring fingers of the deceased had unmatched "ghost" fingerprints, the binary code "help" was engraved on the palms, and the nanodebris left at the scene pointed to cutting-edge technological crimes. Detective Chen Mo took over the investigation and stepped into the dark mystery woven by memory transplantation technology.
From the "memory overflow" patients who appeared in the Quantum Memory Institute to the fingerprints of the "murderer" who came back from the dead in the morgue, the clues ultimately point to Zhao Tianheng, the founder of the Memory Palace - he attempts to build an "omniscience and omnipotence" super brain by plundering the memories of elites. During the investigation, Chen Mo unexpectedly discovered that his father's "accidental" death ten years ago was closely related to this conspiracy. The diary and a rusty key left by his father became the key to uncovering the truth.
After Zhao Tianheng was arrested, Chen Mo followed the clues into the abandoned laboratory and entered his father's memory illusion through the memory helmet, only to learn that the core conspiracy was a memory control program called "Pandora". What's even more dangerous is that Zhao Tianheng is just a pawn, and there is the "Memory Reaper" organization lurking behind him.
The novel deeply integrates science fiction settings and suspense narratives. Following Chen Mo's pursuit of the murderer, he not only experiences the thrill of investigation with repeated twists and turns, but also triggers thoughts on the nature of memory, technological ethics, and the good and evil of human nature.
