Sensory Immigration: Shell Man

[Dystopia + No Golden Finger + Non-Shuangwen + Self-Redemption + Plot Flow + Dark Science Fiction] In New Era 47, emotions are quantified and taxed. Happiness has to be paid, anger has to be fined, sadness has to be paid in installments. Shen Xu is just an ordinary office worker, living carefully every day, even dreaming of being taxed. Until he discovers that his girlfriend is an "emotional hunter" of the Administration, who specializes in hunting high-value targets with love. "Do you think I've loved you? I don't even know what 'love' is." After saying this, she blocked him. His account was reset to zero, his identity was stripped away, and he was sent to the list of the "Abyss Laboratory" - where people would be vivisected, their emotional core extracted, and turned into "empty shells" that would never be reincarnated. On the way to escape, a mysterious organization rescued him. They taught him to "tune" - to manipulate emotional waveforms, trick the system, and even... Devour other people's emotions. Shen Xu learned quickly. Too fast. The instructor said that he was a "genius that comes only once in ten years." The combat team leader began to doubt him. And he found that he was getting more and more "hungry" - not hungry in his stomach, but hungry in his soul. His anger can turn people into shells. His sorrow could set the whole street on fire. The more emotions he steals, the more powerful and less human he becomes. "Strength has weight," the mentor warned him, "don't let the weight crush you." But Shen Xu didn't care. He just wanted to find Lin Wantang and ask her one last question: "When you said 'mission accomplished' - was it your mission or my destiny?" This is a dark science fiction story about anger, betrayal and self-redemption.