——When an algorithm decides your life for you, do you still dare to choose "yourself"?
2035, Floating city.
A city that never sleeps is woven with neon lights, driverless flying cars shuttle on high-altitude tracks, and brain-computer interfaces are as common as contact lenses.
Here, AI helps you plan your career, match your partner, predict your lifespan, and even quietly "nudge" you when you hesitate to make everything "optimal."
No one feels anything unusual - except for the missing people who suddenly become "empty shells" and a memory that has been repeatedly tampered with.
Lin Zhou was once the sharpest knife in the Fucheng Security Department.
Three years ago, his wife and daughter died in a car accident in a system "misjudgment". He resigned angrily and went underground, becoming an information broker who only took on "dirty work."
He thought he was numb until an anonymous employer handed him a commission:
"Help me find evidence that 'I' is not 'me'."
Su Wan, the youngest algorithm goddess in the history of Tianqiong Technology.
She personally wrote the "behavior prediction" engine for the entire city, but found a strange code in the debugging log——
The signature of that string of codes was her own; but she had never had that memory.
As she traced the anomaly, all clues pointed to a word that had been officially erased:
"Consciousness Synchronization Project".
A missing girl's IP, a fake family call, a nanochip implanted in the brain,
Pushing Lin Zhou and Su Wan into the same undercurrent.
Gradually they put the puzzle pieces together:
The freedom of the floating city is just an illusion given by algorithms;
so-called