Seventeen memory fragments to be cleaned, all marked as high-risk. They are all wreckage that collapsed during the uploading process of consciousness, scattered in the dark corners of cyberspace, like digital ghosts.
He rubbed his temples, and he dreamed again last night that the starry sky was not the sky polluted by neon lights in reality, but a deep sky so pure that it made people palpitate, with the stars arranged in strange geometric patterns. This is already the seventh day in a row.
The communicator vibrated, and the supervisor Lao Chen sent a voice: Xiao Jiang, today's batch of work is a bit tricky. There is a fragment that was pulled out from the Tianqiong company's server. Please take your time and sort it out.
Jiang Yu didn't reply, but just stared at the flashing red coordinates in the corner of the screen. He jotted down the location from his memory after waking up last night, where the stars in his dream were pointing. He didn't even know why he wanted to write it down. He stood up and walked to the small apartment window.
Outside is the living area on the 37th floor of Yongye City. The holographic billboards are flashing in the rain, the suspended traffic is weaving, and the headquarters building of Tianqiong Group in the distance pierces the clouds. The lighthouse at the top projects the company's logo into the night sky, an eye that circles the earth.
Jiang Yu's father worked in that building twenty years ago and died in an officially announced experimental accident. Jiang Yu was eight years old at the time. He only remembers that when his grandmother received the notification, she suddenly collapsed on the ground, her pocket watch fell to the ground, and the cover cracked. Grandma never told me what my father did for a living, only that he worked on computers.
Jiang Yu later studied for a master's degree in neuroengineering. When he graduated, Tianqiong came to the school to recruit students and offered him a salary three times that of the industry. He didn't go. When grandma found out, she just held his hand
