Shen Mi is an underground doctor who has spent ten years installing cybernetic implants in the Old Port District. Three years ago, her younger sister Shen Ying went out to buy noodles and never came back.
Three years later, Shen Mi wakes in a rain-soaked warehouse inside an unfamiliar body, serial number N-7. Her real body is locked away on the ninth sublevel of the White Crow Group's headquarters, designated R-19. Her sister is even deeper underground, designated R-20. Her consciousness has been broken into fragments and embedded in the server's lowest-level code.
“If you can't take me with you, go on ahead.”
Shen Mi doesn't leave.
She lays a hand on a door that can only be opened by separating one's consciousness from one's body. Beyond it are 372 people who've been erased, the White Crow Group's deepest secret, and a suicide mission Shen Ying has spent three years preparing.
And Shen Mi has only nine minutes.
Theme: When your body no longer belongs to you and your memories no longer belong to you, what can you use to prove that you are still yourself?
