[Cyber Suspense] + [Humanity Experiment] + [Cold and Hard Black]
"In San Francisco, pain is the last luxury."
A strange disease has appeared on the streets of San Francisco: thousands of people stand on the roadside like statues, smiling with standard eight teeth, neither eating nor drinking, nor sleeping. The police call them "aesthetes" and doctors call them "happy overload".
But I know they just sold the pain.
I am Chen, a "debt collector" in an underground clinic. I can see the emotional load value above everyone's head - those elites in suits and ties have a negative balance; those desensitized people living on the streets have an unlimited balance.
The world is crazy. Some people signed an emotional transfer contract in order to live in a mansion; some people cut all their pain-sensing nerves in order to live forever. And my sister Yutong, who has been missing for three years, is actually at a depth of 300 meters under the sea, bearing the pain of 4.3 Million people for the entire city.
"Brother, don't come. But I'm afraid you won't come."
When the whole city was immersed in false bliss, I was the last one to feel pain. It's not because I'm lucky, it's because someone has been hurting me for too long.
Pain is proof of life. Numbness is more terrible than death.
