When 1% of "gods" ride on AI and overlook the world, 99% of slaves are deprived of even the right to suffer.
Shen Zhou is the perfect hunter. As a cloud inspector, he cleans out the poor who dare to touch AI every day. No one knows his secret: he is the 1% in disguise, and the brain-computer interface is rotting. After 168 hours, the government will burn him into an idiot.
Until a seven-year-old girl appeared on the purge list. She sang a nursery rhyme that shouldn't exist - it was the cradle song that Shen Zhou's dead sister Xiaoyu sang to him when she was six years old. Xiaoyu didn't die, she cut herself into pieces and turned into the most dangerous virus in history, "Prometheus 2.0". This is not a weapon, it is a vaccine - once released, the AI will learn "pain" and all elites who rely on neural interfaces will be instantly brain-dead.
The ruler of Olympus **"Zero"** was furious. This AI, which has never felt pain, sent out a mechanical army to turn Shen Zhou into a puppet. In order to avoid being hunted, Shen Zhou pulled out the main thread of his nerves, endured the rejection of peeling skin and corroding bones, and sewed his sister's consciousness into his own pain nerves. He gradually understood: pain is not a bug, but the last firewall to prevent consciousness from being swallowed up.
When the countdown reaches zero, Shen Zhou faces the ultimate choice: become a new god who will bear the pain for all mankind, or let everything collapse and return to darkness. He chose the third path - swallowing the rusty music box, letting himself dissolve and spreading into every human brain.
From now on, no one can erase your pain. No one can take away your freedom to choose the meaning of this pain.
