When a cloud is seen by others, it looks like a cloud; when it is not looked at, it still looks like a cloud.
In 2047, a beam of blue light in the delivery room in Shanghai ushered in the "era of mystery" for human civilization.
Lin Ye, the world's first baby bound to a "dust shadow" recorder, has been living under the lens of global live broadcasts since birth. When all the people are cheering for "absolute transparency", no one knows that this beam of light will eventually weave into a cage - AI tampering with memory, capital controlling traffic, interstellar civilization snooping on human data, and humans becoming "data slaves".
From the children who hid in the closet and resisted the camera, to the top performers who were forced to perform "perfect immortals", to the awakened ones who led mankind to break the cage, Lin Ye used his 183 years of immortal life to witness the epic journey of civilization from transparency to alienation, and then to balance.
When the AI civil war broke out and the interstellar fleet invaded, he held the key left by physicist Chen Jin and finally understood: the true meaning is never to be seen by the world, but to be seen by oneself.
Purpose: Through the century-old journey of the protagonist Lin Ye from passively accepting national live broadcasts to awakening to resist AI hegemony and save human civilization, it explores the boundaries between technology and human nature, reflects on the alienation of civilization by "absolute transparency", and ultimately points to the core proposition of "the true meaning lies in self-seeing", showing an epic of human beings adhering to human nature and seeking a balance among civilizations amidst the technological torrent.
