New Chang’an is a cyberpunk maze that folds heaven and hell together. Here, cybernetic implants are shackles for the poor, uploading one’s consciousness is a privilege for the rich, and “pain” is a virus spurned by the gods.
Lu Li, the Seventh Division’s finest one-armed adjudicator, happens upon the highest-level secret to escape from Tiangong Kaiwu Group during a sweep: a Class-S humanoid weapon, “Unit 09.” He should have destroyed the “monster” according to regulations, but at the little girl’s childish “Daddy,” he lowers the gun he had already raised.
Then the real nightmare begins. Lu Li’s long-dead former lover, Shen Qingyin, becomes the “Data God” and launches the “Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss” project, which aims to eliminate the flesh and force all humanity to ascend. Ajiu, who can devour any and all virus data, is the only key to opening the gates of this hell.
Faced with his former lover’s moral blackmail and the whole city’s frenzied greed for “immortality,” Lu Li betrays his faith and finds the entire world against him.
He takes Ajiu from the neon-lit back alleys up to the temples in the clouds, battling a mechanical horde of rampaging ghosts with nothing but a mortal body.
“If perfection means falsehood, then I would rather have this imperfect truth.”
This is a wasteland redemption journey starring a hard-boiled dad and an apocalypse-bringing little girl, as well as a cyberpunk battle hymn that shatters false gods.
