A first-prize Shuangseqiu lottery ticket worth 4.36 Million was photographed on the desk of private equity manager Zhou Linyuan. Colleague Chen Yuanshan - a thin former weather forecaster with protruding cheekbones and purple lips all year round - said in a hoarse voice: "The numbers are not chosen by a machine. I can also calculate the next issue." Zhou Linyuan thought he had met a madman, until the string of numbers rolled out of the lottery machine one by one.
Cutting through the tiny cracks in the lottery results data, they unexpectedly uncovered a huge system that had been hidden for more than 20 years - Tianshu. A set of universal algorithms that can simulate or even tame any "random event" has been secretly embedded in all fields that rely on "randomness" such as lottery, finance, meteorology, and power grids. Winning the lottery is not luck, but the output of the algorithm; financial market fluctuations are not market behavior, but preset parameters; even the heavy rain above your head is under the control of the code.
The countdown begins. Retired scouts, technical section chiefs of economic investigations, PhDs in cryptography, investigative reporters, reverse engineers, retired workers who bought lottery tickets for 28 years... A group of ordinary people who are each burdened with the past and debts must race to reach the end of the truth within the three-minute window while being pursued by the task force and surrounded by the remnants of the military. What they hold in their hands is not just copper keys and dongles - but also the final entrustment to those who have had their hopes stolen for half their lives by algorithms.
Luck should not be a luxury locked in by algorithms. Hope is not for taming, but for selection.
Purpose: Luck should not be a luxury product locked by algorithms. Hope is not for taming, but for selection.