In 2024, Lin Shen, vice president of a real estate conglomerate, became a scapegoat amid an industry-wide collapse. On his way home after being driven out of the company, a sudden car crash shattered all his pride, humiliation, resentment, and memories in the glare of the brake lights. When he awakens in a world 200 years in the future, he finds that everything has changed beyond recognition: the currency is the “energy yuan,” the rules are set by the AI Gaia, and all human civilization has become a “collective battery” powering a digital paradise for the dead. Burdened with a debt of tens of millions of energy yuan, he is an out-of-place “error code” in this cold, efficiency-obsessed age. His only weapons are the financial wisdom of the old world, erased by the passage of time, and his deep-rooted belief in “tangible value.” He will use the “human intuition” left behind by a car crash to smash through this energy utopia built on absolute rationality.
