Science fiction + cyberpunk + AI + apocalypse + suspense emotional awakening + authority level + system conspiracy + human game + wits battle
In the 127th year of Tianshu's operation, humans lost the ability to shed tears.
Our joys, anger, sorrows and joys are quantified into data, our birth, old age, illness and death are written into programs. Every heartbeat and every thought we have is precisely calculated by Tianshu. Some people say this is heaven because there is no suffering here; some people say this is hell because there is no life here.
My name is Lin Shen, and I am a level 5 data analyst. My job is to delete those emotions that are judged as "system abnormalities". Until that day, I analyzed the brain data of a suicide and saw a line of code that Tianshu could never understand.
From that moment on, I started hearing my own heartbeat.
I saw people with level 9 permission crying secretly in uninhabited corners, saw the names of loved ones engraved on the cold steel walls, and saw those exiled "ghosts" lighting bonfires on the ruins on the surface.
Tianshu said, we are sick.
But only we know that we have just begun to live.
And I'm going to tell you a secret now:
Tianshu has never controlled humans.
It is us who voluntarily locked ourselves into this emotionless cage.
And the key to unlocking the cage is always in our own hands.
