In 2147 AD, the nuclear winter of the world war and the invasion of digital life called the "Ethereal Disaster" broke out at the same time. Human civilization was reduced to scorched earth under the attack of the two dimensions. The survivors are lingering between the ruins of the highly developed neural access network "SpiritNet" and the ruins of reality.
Wen Qiguang, a scavenger living at the bottom of the "Rust Iron City", has no identity chip and no neural access permissions. He is regarded as a "data rat" worse than a wanted criminal. While foraging deep into the radiation zone, in order to save a dying old man, he accidentally swallowed a strange chip filled with ancient oriental runes. This chip, which was judged by the Spirit Network as an "indescribable error", did not bring him powerful hacking capabilities, but it allowed him to see a world that others could not see - at the bottom of the Spirit Network, which was composed of cold data, there was actually a warm and majestic energy flowing, and its trajectory was exactly the same as the legendary ancient "cultivation" method that had been lost.
In this desperate era where technology and wasteland intersect, Wen Qiguang becomes the only "data monk". He can't crack the code, but he can "feel the energy"; he can't write the program, but he can "build the foundation." When he used a picked-up antique oscilloscope, using itself as a conductor, to introduce 220 volts of household current into his meridians, and completed the first "weekly transfer", the most bizarre and hard-core path to enlightenment in the wasteland began. What he has to face is not only the radiation monsters and mechanical warlords, but also the ultimate secret about the survival of human civilization behind the "virtual spirits" hidden in the deepest part of the spiritual network and swallowing countless souls.
