After being murdered by his future self, chief technical consultant Chen Xing returns to three years earlier with a warning: “Stop the company’s new energy project.” He assumes his mission is to expose a corporate conspiracy, but unexpectedly discovers that the world he inhabits is merely a vast virtual reality called “Cradle,” while humanity in the real world has long been reduced to biological batteries that keep this illusion running. Worse still, every time he transmigrates in an attempt to change the past, he accelerates the collapse of reality itself. Chen Xing must choose between false prosperity and a brutal truth, racing against time to find a path to salvation that may not exist before the System completely falls apart, even if that means facing once again the future version of himself, who will stop at nothing to prevent him.
