Year 3127 of the New Eden Calendar, the cyber city Elysian. Lu Shen, an 18-year-old delivery boy, rides a shabby flying skateboard between slums and wealthy areas. The monthly salary is 3,000 credits, the rent is 3,500 credits, and every meal must be carefully budgeted. His greatest wish was just to pay off his mother's medical debt.
While delivering food, he mistakenly entered a restricted area and found a crashed transport truck full of corpses. A dying man gave him a black chip, said "Don't let them find you" and then died.
Lu Shen inserted the chip into the old-fashioned terminal he carried with him. The next second, a cold mechanical sound exploded in his consciousness - AI activation. But this is not some invincible golden finger. The AI's energy is almost exhausted, and there are only two pieces of information left in the storage area: an encrypted coordinate of an ancient interstellar civilization, and a file fragment that has been deleted repeatedly.
Nova Group's black operations team came to the door that night.
