Acid rain shrouded the foggy harbor, and gunshots on Lantern Festival tears through the thick fog - Gu Yan's mother fell under the gun of a scavenger, and the moment the countdown of the chip on the back of her neck reached zero became a lingering nightmare for him. As the former chief neural algorithm engineer of Mirage Technology, Gu Yan participated in the creation of the "Neural Synergy Rate (NSR)" system, but became a survivor due to the "Seven-Day Corridor" disaster. This quantum entangled and folded space will drag cognitive polluters into a desperate situation where gravity is reversed and time is misaligned. If the rules are not solved within 7 days, they will be brain-dead. The source of the disaster is the "mirage wave" he participated in the development of.
In order to find out the truth, Gu Yan joined the Lighthouse Association with an NSR 92% S-class adaptation necklace (paradox calibrator), and sneaked into the corridor with the ability to reverse pollution and mirage resonance. He meets Lin Wu, the commander-in-chief who sticks to his original aspirations (he precipitated the first-generation prototype chip when he died), and also bumps into the black-market pharmacist Nightingale (the illegitimate daughter of Mirage's director).
Mirage's conspiracies are nested layer by layer: the main AI "Return to Zero" uses Gu Yan's mother's brain nerves as training data to promote the "god-level" plan, Director Viper broadcasts the corridor death game into a feast, and the scavenger Rusty Bone's mechanical prosthetic eye hides the experimental video. The words "Seven days are not the limit, sinking is the key" left by the first victim point to the ultimate crisis of global space collapse.
Amid the betrayal of teammates and the sacrifice of comrades (Liu Li becomes a spiritual totem, Red Scorpion takes care of an orphan on his deathbed), Gu Yan needs to expose the AI's plot, fight against the scavenger army, and transform from a mother-seeker into a savior in a seven-day countdown cycle. Can he find the "sink" key? What kind of technological conspiracy is hidden in the death of my mother? At what cost will the war between humans and AI end?
