In 2050, the "pons" neural interface technology claims to eliminate all knowledge gaps and make educational equality a reality. The task that user experience designer Lin Zhou received was to optimize the "emotion filter plug-in" - to shield the upper elites from the pain, anxiety and despair from the bottom, leaving only the gratitude and admiration they want to see. A system abnormality allowed Lin Zhou to capture a string of encrypted neural signals from the slums. It was not chaotic noise, but the shocking truth transmitted by countless underlying brains through primitive thinking relays: Technology has never eliminated class, it has only built a silent wall of separation in a more refined way. When the company's internal "Ideological Audit Department" began to track the source of the signal, Lin Zhou found that he was deeply involved in a cognitive war about the nature of society. What he didn't know was that a low-level resonance that could drown out all "emotional filters" was quietly brewing in the dark.
