When your brain is soaked in nutrient solution and your body is a machine made of titanium alloy, you start to see ghosts - is this a virus in the brain-computer interface, or is there real karma?
In 2046, human consciousness is uploaded to the cloud, and mechanical ascension becomes a reality. The brain of mercenary Chen Mo is stored in a thermostatic cylinder. The prosthetic body can be replaced infinitely. Death is just a matter of restarting with another body. Until he accepted a simple task: enter the old city blocked by "data turbulence" and bring back an out-of-control cyborg.
The moment he entered the city, all infrared detection failed and the electronic compass spun wildly. His teammates - those cyborgs with a mechanization rate of more than 98% - began to "go offline" in bizarre ways: some kowtowed crazily into the air until the lines burned down, some saw long-dead relatives asking for their lives in the data stream, and some had bright red cinnabar sigils appearing on their prosthetics for no reason.
Chen Mo firmly believes that this is some kind of new electromagnetic weapon targeting brain-computer interface. Until he discovered that his mechanical arm, which had no biological tissue, also had red marks that could not be erased no matter how hard it was formatted. In the abandoned earth temple at the corner of the street, a half-destroyed Bodhisattva statue slowly opened its eyes facing him.
This is a world where the logic of materialism is used to fight against the supernaturalism of idealism. When the cyborg begins to burn incense, when the AI recites the mantra of rebirth, when gods and Buddhas really stand at the end of science - Chen Mo must find the only real rule in this restricted area while constantly crashing and reading files.
