In an era when portals have been fully used by civilians, people are accustomed to crossing cities in more than ten seconds. The distance is compressed by technology, and arrival becomes a natural result. College student Lin Shu and his roommate had an ordinary cross-city teleportation, but encountered an anomaly during the process: the roommate successfully arrived, but he remained at the place of departure. What's even weirder is that when the roommate returned to the dormitory that night, he found that there were two "Lin Shu" in the world. As the truth gradually emerged, Lin Shu realized that the so-called teleportation was not a real displacement, but a complete copy of a person at the destination and the destruction of the "old existence" in place. A minor accident prevented the system from completing the destruction process, creating two "redundant personalities" with identical memories and identities. The law does not recognize their existence, and the system defines them as wrongs that must be "corrected." After a brief and secret symbiosis, the two Lin Shu were forced to embark on the road of escape, slowly moving forward in a world without the use of portals. They continued to divide, argue, and compromise, and finally had to face an unavoidable question: If only one person can be left, who is qualified to continue living?
Purpose: Through the extreme technical setting of "portal copy-destruction", we explore whether individual existence is still irreplaceable after life is institutionalized and standardized. The work attempts to reveal: When society only recognizes the results of "correct functions", people who are considered "redundant" will not lose pain, memory and dignity as a result. What is really eliminated is human beings' reverence for life itself.