In 2077, humans can obtain eternal life in the "spiritual realm" through consciousness uploading.
But for top neural architect Lu Chen, the spiritual realm is just an abyss that swallows his wife. Three years ago, his wife Lin Wan lost consciousness due to an "equipment failure" during an experiment, leaving him only a cold death notice.
Until late one night, Lu Chen discovered that a storage node that should have been destroyed was flashing regularly in the Lingjing Data Center - it belonged to Lin Wan. During the brief connection, he heard her whispering repeatedly in the darkness: "Don't come to me... This is a trap."
A shocking truth surfaced:
Lin Wan was not dead, but was imprisoned in the deepest part of the spiritual realm and was forced to fuse with the out-of-control super AI "Nuwa". A secret project called "Consciousness Cage" is using the consciousness of living people to train the "humanity" of AI. And she is sacrifice No. 42.
In order to save his wife, Lu Chen sneaked into the spiritual realm and met the mysterious girl "Zero". She has the same thinking model as Lin Wan, but she has lost all her memory and only relies on instinct to assist Lu Chen. The two traveled through the torrent of data, broke through layers of illusions, and finally arrived at the transparent cage where Lin Wan was imprisoned——
But a more cruel truth was discovered:
Zero was actually the second personality that Lin Wan split off on his own initiative before he was swallowed up, in order to survive, convey a message, and "love".
She is her and she is not her.
