In the next three thousand years, human civilization will enter the "post-prosperity era." Federal rule covers the world, technology creates false prosperity, resources are monopolized by the top class, and history becomes the rubber clay of power. A low-level archivist inherited the encrypted historical materials left by his grandfather and accidentally came into contact with the buried truth of the "Great Recession" - that catastrophe that was whitewashed as "civilization upgrade" was actually the result of power struggle and capital greed.
He tried to use his pen as a blade to restore the tampered chronology, but he encountered the pursuit of the Federal Bureau of Historical Revision, the betrayal of his colleagues, and the numbness of the people at the bottom. Technological surveillance is pervasive, false propaganda distorts cognition, and those who stick to the truth are reduced to "heresies." Within the framework of a rusty civilization, he traveled through neon-covered slums, heavily guarded historical archives, and undercurrents of resistance strongholds, witnessing the alienation of human nature under the pressure of survival, and exposing the suffering caused by the rigidity of the system.
In this record of an individual versus the times, there are no heroic hymns, only struggles in the mud. Can he preserve the remnants of civilization for future generations before it is destroyed? What is criticized is not technology, but the abuse of power of technology; what is tortured is not human nature, but the system that distorts human nature. At the end of false prosperity, truth is the only fire and the heaviest shackles.
