"Anonymous or famous?" For Zero, a memory cleaner living in the Rust Belt of Nirvana City, this has never been a choice, but a cursed daily routine. He struggles every day with the painful memories of others being deleted, like a silent data ghost in the shadow of the city's megastructures.
Until by chance, he broke into a memory that should have been completely erased, and discovered the shocking secret hidden in the "sky dome" of the neural network that rules the entire city - an "evolutionary screening" program designed to eliminate the bottom population. This memory immediately made him a target pursued by capital giants and underground resistance organizations. In the thin line between life and death, Zero chose to make his secret known to the public. From an unknown person who no one cared about, he rose overnight to the symbol of the spirit of resistance, "Zero the Unknown".
However, fame is the most dangerous addiction in cyborg cities. While enjoying the popularity and resources, Zero found himself gradually lost in the carefully woven public image. And when the cruel ultimate truth comes - his own existence is an experiment carefully designed by the capital giants to annihilate the resistance, love and ideals fall into the abyss at the same time. In the trap of fame and the labyrinth of identity, Zero made the final choice: He planned a vigorous self-sacrifice, not to destroy the system, but to turn himself into a "rust code" wedged into its core that would never corrode.
When the smoke clears, will he become a martyr who awakens the world with his sacrifice, or will his consciousness be permanently captured by the system and become an eternal ghost wandering in the torrent of data?
