[Underlying settings]
Here, your residence, job, and even value are all determined by system scores. Neighbors show off their elite positions and cloud apartments selected by AI, but I, Sorter Zero, have been assigned to the same damp basement for three consecutive years, sorting never-ending garbage.
[Core Conflict]
Until today, the system sent me a red notice:
"After testing, you have deliberately reduced your work efficiency in the past three years."
"The punishment mechanism is now activated: you will lose all survival resource quotas."
"Countdown begins: 3 hours."
[Desperate reversal]
Forced into a desperate situation, I fled to the squalid bottom of the city, only to learn the horrifying truth - my sin was not slacking off at work, but "thinking too much." The envy, reluctance, and memories I have, which are regarded as useless human nature, are exactly the "redundant viruses" that the system must eliminate.
[Hidden truth and awakening]
While escaping, I accidentally triggered the legacy of the previous generation of AI that had been covered up by the system, and at the critical moment of life and death, I ignited a flame that could not be defined by data. I became a living paradox in the logic of the system, an incomprehensible error code.
