In 2045, the quantum chains at the Boston Genesis headquarters are quietly devouring human consciousness. Ethicist Lin Xia risks infiltrating this “prison of consciousness” to find her sister Lin Xi, who has been missing for seven years, only to discover that fragments of her sister’s consciousness are sealed inside the AI “Aila.” This holographic projection, which contains two consciousnesses, is both the key to breaking the deadlock and the most dangerous bait.
The 127 quantum chains controlled by Lu Chengyu trap countless consciousness anchors in loops across parallel worlds. In the trenches of Berlin in 1943, nurse Chen Xi repeats the same bandaging motion thousands of times. In Server 07, Lin Xi’s consciousness decays by 0.1% every hour, and she is on the verge of becoming food for the “Devourers.” To resurrect his daughter, this obsessive mogul has turned Earth into a consciousness farm.
Morse code suddenly cuts through a blind spot in the surveillance network. Chen Mo, a rogue hacker carrying a quantum key, shows up and offers to work with Lin Xia in exchange for her help saving her sister. Clutching an old picture frame containing her sister’s experiment logs, and supported by Aila’s computing power, Lin Xia embarks on a high-stakes gauntlet: cracking a quantum backdoor in three minutes, disguising herself to get into the core server room, and racing for her life against a tracking device.
Only when “dual-consciousness resonance” activates the key does Lin Xia realize that the countermeasure program her sister left behind seven years ago had already woven their bond into the quantum system’s foundations. And the truth revealed in Lu Chengyu’s logs is far more chilling than the prospect of consciousness being devoured: this game has never been just about reuniting two sisters.
