Urban imagination + genius + boss + suspense + system
Three years ago, genius programmer Lin Zhao was despicably kicked out of the company he founded, "Star Technology". His wife died in an "accident" and he was falsely accused of commercial espionage and imprisoned. After being released from prison, he became a delivery boy and struggled at the bottom of the city.
While delivering food, he accidentally activated the "Abyss System" he secretly developed in prison—a set of programs that can invade and rewrite the underlying code of the real world. He discovered that the entire city is running on a "reality engine" built by technology giants, and people's consumption, social interaction, and even emotions are controlled by algorithms.
Lin Zhao decided to use this power to gradually dismantle the digital hegemony established by Star Technology and its allies, starting from the lowest level of the market. He established an intelligence network among delivery riders, used code to rewrite the rules of the game, obtained the first pot of gold from the gray area, and created his own underground technology empire.
But as his abilities improved, he discovered that there was a bigger secret hidden behind his wife's death - Starfield Technology founder Lu Beichen was promoting the "New World Project" in an attempt to completely replace human consciousness with AI and establish an eternal digital dictatorship. Lin Zhao's abyss system is a by-product of this plan.
The ultimate showdown between free will and algorithmic slavery unfolds in a city like a steel forest.
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Reality engine: The underlying system built by technology giants. All digital aspects of city operation (transportation, payment, social interaction) are based on this. Ordinary people live in a cocoon woven by algorithms.
Abyss System: A meta-program developed by Lin Zhao that can read and write the source code of the reality engine. The price is that users will gradually become "digitized" - losing physical perception and thinking more and more like AI.
New World Project: The ultimate project of Starfield Technology, all human consciousness will be uploaded to the server through the brain-computer interface, and everything will be managed by AI. In name, it is to "eliminate pain and achieve eternal life", but in essence it is to eliminate free will.
Sky Eye System: Starfield Technology's surveillance network covers the entire city, can predict criminal behavior (similar to "Minority Report"), and is used to suppress resistance.
Reality engine: The underlying system built by technology giants. All digital aspects of city operation (transportation, payment, social interaction) are based on this. Ordinary people live in a cocoon woven by algorithms. Abyss System: A meta-program developed by Lin Zhao that can read and write the source code of the reality engine. The price is that users will gradually become "digitized" - losing physical perception and thinking more and more like AI. New World Project: The ultimate project of Starfield Technology, all human consciousness will be uploaded to the server through the brain-computer interface, and everything will be managed by AI. In name, it is to "eliminate pain and achieve eternal life", but in essence it is to eliminate free will. Sky Eye System: Starfield Technology's surveillance network covers the entire city, can predict criminal behavior (similar to "Minority Report"), and is used to suppress resistance.