The price: the System forcibly deletes every imperfect memory.
Those who are erased leave no trace that they ever existed.
Except for Bai, the protagonist.
He is an amnesiac “glitch,” yet possesses an ability that should not exist: “Echo Perception.”
He can hear the screams of those who have been deleted, see the truth that has been overwritten, and feel the final heartbeat of those who died long ago.
This ability makes him essential to repairing the System, but also a target hunted by every faction.
The mysterious girl Zero says, “You are the only real human.”
But carved into his palm is a scarred line of text: “Do not trust Zero.”
Meanwhile, in the real world known as “Rustland,” a repairman named Lu Chen is walking step by step toward the death he designed for himself.
