Sleepless in the Floating City

When algorithms decide your life for you, will you still dare to choose for yourself?

The year is 2035. Floating City.

A sleepless metropolis woven from neon, where self-driving cars zip along elevated tracks and brain-computer interfaces are as commonplace as contact lenses.

Here, AI plans your career, finds your partner, predicts how long you will live, and even gives you a subtle nudge when you hesitate, steering everything toward the "optimal" outcome.

No one thinks anything is wrong, except for the missing people who suddenly become "empty shells," and a memory that has been altered again and again.

Lin Zhou was once the sharpest weapon in Floating City's Security Bureau.

Three years ago, his wife and daughter died in a car crash caused by a System "error." Furious, he quit, went underground, and became an information broker who takes only "dirty jobs."

He thought he had long since grown numb, until an anonymous client brought him a job:

"Help me find proof that 'I' am not 'me.'"

Su Wan, the youngest algorithmic genius in the history of Skydome Technologies.

She wrote the engine that predicts the behavior of the entire city with her own hands, but discovered a strange piece of code in the debugging logs.

The code was signed in her name, yet she had no memory of ever writing it.

When she traced the anomaly, every lead pointed to a term erased by the authorities:

"The Consciousness Synchronization Plan."

An IP address belonging to a missing girl, a fabricated call between family members, and a nan chip implanted in someone's brain

pushed Lin Zhou and Su Wan into the same undercurrent.

Piece by piece, they began to put the puzzle together:

The freedom of Floating City was nothing but an illusion granted by algorithms;

so-called