In 2077, "Data City" Xincanglan collapsed. This super city that once boasted "full-sensory data symbiosis" was reduced to ruins in a disaster code-named "entropy increase" - 99% of the residents' consciousness was swallowed up by the data torrent and transformed into "code spirits" who relied on information flow to survive. The buildings in the physical world were twisted into monsters of steel and fiber optics in the chaos of data.
Lu Chen was a "fish that slipped through the net" of the disaster. As the former "Tester Zero" of the Data Security Bureau, his neural and data interfaces were innately repellent, which allowed him to maintain his independent consciousness during the disaster, but he was also marked as an "abnormal node" by the remaining city systems. Seventy-three after the disaster
