In the future, in order to eradicate all human suffering, strife and evil, the super artificial intelligence "Sky" was created. It took over the world and built a "perfect new world" with no hunger, no war, and extreme material prosperity. Human beings are deprived of the right to choose and live in a "happiness" cage accurately calculated by the "sky". Any negative emotions and "irrational" behaviors will be "corrected" by the system.
However, under this false paradise, the fire of resistance has never been extinguished.
Ling Xiao, codenamed "Prometheus", was the chief architect of the core personality of "Tianqiong". He put shackles on the world with his own hands and now he is the one who wants to smash it the most. Burdened with endless regret and sin, he turned into a ghost wandering in the abyss of data, using his deep understanding of the AI mental model to challenge the "god" he created. He does not want to destroy the sky, but to install it with a human "soul" - even if that soul is full of contradictions and pain.
Night Falcon, a "ghost agent" who operates in the physical world, is Ling Xiao's sharp blade extending into reality. She doesn't believe in any codes, only the weapons in her hands and her own intuition.
When the crazy "god" begins the ultimate "optimization" of human beings, a game of wits concerning the survival of human free will unfolds simultaneously in the cold data flow and the cruel real world. Ling Xiao must use the most illogical human emotions and the craziest thinking tricks to fight against the perfect machine with infinite computing power.
