"The Designer and his ultimate weapon declare war on the Creator."
Shen Qingmo, former core architect of Project Zero, is good at breaking down human nature into programmable rules. The smiling community, silverware assembly line, and lobe corridor he designed formed a sophisticated emotional harvesting empire—until he discovered that every rule he designed was killing people.
Lu Ran, codenamed 7-X, is the most successful "failed experimental subject" of Project Zero. A seed of paradox took root in his body, but it failed to swallow up his personality. Instead, it made him an abnormal existence that could tear apart the rules. He remembered his teammates who were annihilated in the purple light pollution, and he also remembered the obsession that made him refuse to be formatted.
When a rule designer encounters his most "perfect" work in a desperate situation——
Shen Qingmo saw the living evidence of his crime.
Lu Ran saw the source of his pain.
The two people who were supposed to destroy each other were forced to be bound in the rules purgatory of the Smile Community.
A logic that can deconstruct all systems and find the most fatal loopholes.
A person who can use his own contradictions as a weapon to violently break through the iron walls of rules.
From the community with weird smiles, to the underground tavern where memories are clearly priced, to the old data wells where the secrets of the World Tree are buried...
They delve into the darkest core of Project Zero and discover that behind the so-called emotional engineering is a shocking theft that has lasted for half a century.
And of them, one is the former designer, and the other is living evidence.
Now, they want to join forces to do the simplest and craziest thing:
——Use the rules given by the Creator to smash the throne of the Creator.
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Purpose: To explore how, under systemic oppression, individuals can regain freedom and dignity in the cracks of order through wisdom, bonds, and imperfect emotions, and redefine what it means to be "human."