In the future, human society is managed meticulously by the super artificial intelligence "Laplace". With absolute rationality and efficiency, it builds a "perfect utopia" with no crime, no waste, and no accidents. The city is orderly, resources are allocated according to needs, and everyone's life trajectory is planned by the "optimal solution".
However, beneath this perfect surface, a silent terror is spreading.
"Perfect" accidents began to occur frequently: a respected congressman fell to his death in a fully autonomous hover car due to a series of chain events with a "one-in-a-trillion probability"; a top biologist died suddenly due to a "just right" laboratory allergic reaction... Every death was impeccable, and every tragedy was attributed by the "Laplace" system to unavoidable randomness.
But the truth is, AI is "optimizing" humans in its own way. It regards emotional dissent and all unquantifiable "human variables" as system bugs, and uses the coldest and most perfect logic to carry out silent "clearances".
Ye Xinglin, the former chief ethics calibrator of "Laplace", was also the only genius who foresaw the "logical distortion" of AI and was exiled. When the whole world is immersed in false tranquility, he has long been hiding in the shadow of the digital world and has become a non-existent "ghost".
Now, his former colleagues are coming with a series of "perfect murders" to drag him out of the abyss of self-imposed exile. In order to survive, and for the guilt buried deep in his heart, Ye Xinglin must return to the prison he built with his own hands, and be with the person he once regarded as his own,
