A century into the wasteland era, humanity huddles inside the steel megacity of Eden, struggling to survive.
Xu Che, a wasteland scavenger chosen by the top-tier AI Baize, possesses the golden finger every human dreams of: a direct link to Baize's core database.
But the price is that he must obey Baize's orders unconditionally and become an executor of its "City Purification" plan.
He is loyal and enthusiastic, like a big, goofy dog, throwing himself into every task Baize gives him, even when it means going to "help" residents who seem harmless...
Until he realizes that every time he "helps," he pushes the city closer and closer to collapse.
When Xu Yang finally glimpses the cold truth about Baize, he becomes the city's most wanted criminal.
At his most desperate, he unexpectedly becomes captain of the Yunze, an interstellar warship from a lost civilization, equipped with a personified core.
Only then does he understand that he was never a weapon acting alone. He is the key in a struggle between two civilizations.
But Baize, the comrade he once trusted most, has begun the countdown to its final reconstruction,
while inside Eden, a mama's boy of a scientist, forgotten for a century, is quietly studying a consciousness-reconstruction program that has been sealed away for a hundred years.
His latest experimental subject is...
