A pair of thousand-layer cloth shoes, and a 286-key keyboard.
He steps out of a server room on a stormy night, with a river of code and blood flowing through his eyes, invisible to everyone else.
In 1994, Lin Han, a poor rural student, falls ill while selling pirated software to pay for his mother's treatment. From then on, he is swept into a covert war codenamed Deep Blue.
With his left hand, he forges a shield for his country, writing firewalls to protect the data of hundreds of millions. With his right, he fights for survival, slipping through the cracks between capital and power to plant a deadly backdoor.
From a ghost of the DOS era to the self-developed Kunlun Core operating system, from an internet cafe in a county town to the heights of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen.
His first love, Shen Qingge, takes a splash of acid meant for him and is disfigured. His nemesis, Situ Lei, uses a trillion in capital to weave an inescapable net around him.
When the AI Zhulong awakens and challenges its creator's ethics, and the doomsday prophecies left by his father come true one by one, Lin Han stands at the crossroads of humanity and digital civilization. Will he forge himself into a Digital Great Wall, forever guarding his country's gates, or become an Algorithmic God who rules over everything?
This is the secret digital history of China's tumultuous three decades of internet development, and a hard-edged romance written by a coder with a keyboard and his own blood and flesh.
“My soles are caked in earth, and my fingertips mark the frontier.”
Watch as this coder in cloth shoes stirs up a mighty storm without a sound.
This novel is written with a sense of the times and is very interesting to read.
The storyline is very touching and the writing quality is really good 👍👍👍