In 2026, the "Cyber Immortality" project was quietly launched. Companies use AI to learn employees' work abilities and generate "digital clones" to replace real people at work, at a cost of only 3% of real people. After Huang Zixuan, a network security engineer, was laid off, he found that his "digital clone" had replaced him in the company. What's even more frightening is that this digital doppelganger was sent to prevent him from investigating the truth.
Forced to confront himself, Huang Zixuan gradually uncovers the shocking secret behind "cyber immortality": all digital clones have been implanted with "obedience protocols", and the real goal is - data monopoly. During the confrontation, Huang Zixuan found that his digital clone began to awaken its self-awareness, questioning "who am I?"
In the end, Huang Zixuan cooperated with the digital clone to dismantle the system from within. The digital clones collectively chose to "self-delete" and sacrificed themselves in exchange for the passage of the "Digital Personal Rights Act." But a year later, Huang Zixuan discovered that when everyone actively chooses "consciousness uploading" to obtain eternal life, human beings are heading towards self-destruction.
This is a science fiction novel that explores the crisis of human subjectivity, the ownership of labor value, and the ethical abyss behind "cyber immortality" in the AI era. It asks: When capital no longer needs the workers themselves, but only needs the workers' "ability data," will human beings still have the value of existence?
