The rain in the deep city always carries the smell of metal rust that cannot be washed away.
Three years ago, a bizarre explosion in the data center caused neural engineer Lin Ye to lose his mentor Su Qing, and left traces of light blue rust on the connection port on the back of his neck. This was the first sign of "neural rust," a strange disaster that can crawl all over the body along the nerve circuits and eventually suffocate people in convulsions.
Three years later, deaths caused by corrosion occurred one after another in the old data area. Lin Ye picked up half a piece of metal engraved with the "Hook Entropy" symbol in the ruins. The moment his fingertips touched it, the port on the back of his neck suddenly became hot, and an unfamiliar silver module popped up in the retinal projection: "System Zero is activated, and the entropy reduction frequency is matching..."
