Where Will the 22Nd Century Take Us?

What does the future hold? Is it an ideal society of material abundance, a hellish world where resources are monopolized by oligarchs, or a third path where artificial intelligence replaces humanity? All of the above, and none of them. You have abundant supplies, but you don't control production. You treat everyone as tools, yet you yourself are nothing more than a puppet of history. You believe artificial intelligence can do anything, but it still needs your strength. When the gap in power becomes suffocating, ordinary people lose all hope of successfully resisting, and every traditional path fails... A reclusive boy encounters a girl who has narrowly escaped death. Order collapses, gangs run rampant, the dead lie everywhere, and warlords rise up. Undercover work? Rebellion? Authoritarian rule? War? Billions of people with overwhelming numbers, planetary rulers wielding absolute power, ambitious interstellar traders, and an artificial intelligence pulling the strings from the shadows together usher in a sweeping new era. With inferior weapons, backward technology, declining knowledge, and endless conflict, ordinary people raised in comfort are forced into a world of chaos. But this time, can they create a new world like their ancestors did? Lu Wanqian, a boy from the lowest rungs of society, and Xu Xinyan, a girl secretly leading the resistance. They have nothing, yet they carve out a future for humanity that no one ever imagined.