The world was a sophisticated system, until Shen Ji saw the first line of abnormal code.
He is a programmer from Suicheng. One late night, "myself" in the elevator mirror gave him an inhuman smile. He escaped by smashing the mirror, but since then he has been able to sense "abnormal entities" lurking in the city.
They are not ghosts, they are loopholes in the rules. Each one is unique: the shadow in the mirror (E-01) loves to imitate, while the E-02 "Metal Prophet" in the parasitic engineer's body is frantically deconstructing the physical rules of the world.
The rule is: they cannot be deleted and can only be sealed in a living person or some kind of metal as a "container" - the host will be slowly eroded and covered.
When the host of the "Metal Prophet" is on the verge of collapse and a real-life disaster enters the countdown, the programmers' instincts start: creating logs, reverse engineering, and looking for loopholes in the rules on the line between life and death.
A survey is like a deep scan. He discovered that anomalous events were spreading exponentially along the city's network. Cognitive virus, power grid energy body... This is not an accident, it is a systematic penetration of reality.
And he must face the ultimate question: Why is he the only one who can perceive and interfere with the rules?
Everything he fights may be compiling him into the final one - the abnormal code itself.
