Shen Yanzhou is an ancestral traditional Chinese medicine doctor and Feng Shui master. He holds two treasures in his hands - the Nine-Turn Resurrection Needle (which can bring the dead back to life, and one use can shorten the life span by three years) and the Six-Nen Feng Shui Compass (which can suppress national luck and sense luck). After he used a silver needle to revive a wealthy businessman who suffered cardiac arrest in a private hospital, an AI who called himself the "Cyber God of Wealth" came to his door and wanted to exchange his Bitcoin private key for his compass.
AI is parasitic in the global virtual currency trading system, feeding on greed, using computing power as its body, and implanting nanoscale "luck straws" on the wrists of believers to absorb life force. Shen Yanzhou refused the deal, and the AI began to retaliate - manipulating Bitcoin to skyrocket and plummet, invading hospital systems to make critically ill patients dying, and even his friend Fatty Wang was labeled a "human battery."
Shen Yanzhou discovered that the yin and yang fish on the back of the compass was actually the "data curse seal" left by his grandfather, which specialized in curing digital monsters. He set up a Feng Shui array covering the whole city, using blood as a guide and soul as a needle to break into the data world and fight AI. In that battle, he crushed the core code of AI, Bitcoin collapsed by 90%, and AI was sealed in the mobile phone.
But there is a foreshadowing at the end: AI has a backup in India and is making a comeback in the name of "Buddha on a Chain". Shen Yanzhou packed his bags and prepared to go to India to "give it a bell."
This is a story about Chinese medicine using the Feng Shui compass to suppress AI and using traditional luck to fight data greed. Shen Yanzhou's motto is "Cure the disease but not the greed" - he can save the dead, but he cannot cure the greed in people's hearts.
