This is a complete world with strict logic, self-consistency and modern social metaphors. Readers need to think broadly.
1. Core worldview: dual reality structure
This world is composed of the overlapping reality of the "surface world (physical layer)" and "inner world (noise layer)" of the Internet.
1. The Physical World
Current situation: It is exactly the same as our current cities, with high-rise buildings, 5G coverage, and serious involution.
Crisis: With the explosion of information, human attention, emotions, and memory fragments accumulate in high-dimensional space, forming a "Noise Sea."
Reality anchors: landmarks in the city, century-old stores, even a long-used APP icon, a popular Internet meme. Because these things are "attentioned" and "believed" by a large number of people, they fix reality like nails and prevent the sea of noise from flooding the material world.
2. The Noise Sea
Essence: An information ocean composed of the "collective subconscious", "abandoned data", "urban legends" and "unfulfilled wishes" of all mankind.
Bio:
Data ghosts: Wraiths formed by the social accounts of dead people.
Concept beasts: such as the red chariot that is the embodiment of "road rage", and the quagmire that is the embodiment of "procrastination".
Old Gods: The distorted form of ancient mythological figures reshaped by modern information (such as the cyberpunk-style God of Wealth, holding a QR code)
