In 2035, "emotion tracing technology" will be launched. This technology can convert people's memories into retroactive holographic images by scanning the hippocampus of the brain. It is mainly used to treat Alzheimer's disease and collect evidence in criminal cases.
The protagonist Shen Mo is a 45-year-old top memory analyst and one of the developers of this technology. He is withdrawn, technology-oriented, and firmly believes that "memory is the only truth that does not lie."
One day, a bizarre case occurred: a single mother Lin Yun was accused of murdering her 8-year-old daughter. All the physical evidence was conclusive, but Lin Yun insisted that she was innocent and even passed the police's memory polygraph - in her memory, she was sleeping with her daughter on the night of her murder.
Silence was assigned to conduct deep memory forensics. In the process of retrieving memories, he discovered that Lin Yun's memories were calm on the surface, but underneath were full of "editing traces" - someone had implanted a false memory of maternal love in her mind to cover up the truth.
What shocked Silence even more was that this editing technique was exactly the same as the experimental manuscript of his long-lost wife Su Qing. Ten years ago, Su Qing was "died" in a fire after proposing a subversive theory of "memory plasticity", and the manuscripts she left behind also disappeared.
In order to find out the truth, Silence fell into a huge whirlpool:
1. Superficial case: How did the little girl die? Why did the murderer torture a single mother?
2. Deep conspiracy: Who is abusing memory editing technology? This technology is being used to create the perfect witness, the perfect criminal, and even the perfect lover.
Reader comments
The story has ups and downs, is fascinating, and is worth watching.
The story has ups and downs, is fascinating, and is worth watching.