In 2050, in the near future, China has fallen into a civilizational impasse: AI has tampered with ancient books in batches, historical nihilism has eroded the younger generation, and "sudden amnesia" has broken out in the entire population. The city of memory, a cage of rules that embodies human collective memory, has completely appeared.
The Lord of the Five Elements is entrenched in the twelve cages of the Memory City and the memory areas of the nine ancient capitals. He uses the four evil laws of pawning private memories, tampering with public history, anesthetizing trauma, and burning the truth. He stuffs mortal memories into glass jars and sells them, burns civilization history books into scorched earth, and completely erases the roots of the nation from the minds of the world, turning hundreds of millions of people into memoryless zombies who do not recognize their relatives or remember their history.
Chen Xu, the chief technician of the National Center for Restoration of Ancient Books, was kidnapped into Yi City because his sister Chen Nian (a Ph. D. In Oracle Bones from Peking University and a holder of the Mark of Civilization) was deciphering the Yin Ruins oracle bones and found irrefutable evidence of collusion between Yi City and the overseas Void Spirit Society. His memory was on the verge of disappearing, triggering a 72-hour countdown to life and death.
He has no system, no aura, and no plug-ins. He has awakened his natal ability "Tracing Patterns" with ten years of repair skills. He uses the black iron repair needle and the broken pages of Song Dynasty as soldiers to step into the killing field of rules. By distinguishing patterns to break the rules, mending patterns to save souls, breaking patterns to kill evil spirits, and returning patterns to determine the universe, we gather revenge reporters, memory weaving craftsmen, atonement scholars, and undercover law enforcers to break the shady pawns, dismantle the ice fog magic array, burn and destroy historical books, and protect the foundation of the cultural heritage.
When the marks of the five civilizations gathered together and the sequence lock of the Great Ice Pattern Palace was opened, Chen Xu, in the name of the restorer, sequenced billions of memories, spliced the millennium context, and reset the rules of the city. In this battle, we can save our loved ones, protect the common people, establish historical facts, and continue civilization - the truth cannot be changed, the roots cannot be broken, and the city is in chaos, I am coming back!
