In 2030, Cheng Yanzhi, the founder of Shenzhen Technology, launched EVE, an emotional algorithm that can predict human behavior, but caused a mysterious meltdown in the New York stock market. Lu Chen, a retired engineer, discovers a blood-stained work badge among the remains of his mother who committed suicide, uncovering a dark feast that spans biotechnology and capital conspiracies—his mother, Xu Wenjun, was actually the first experimental subject of EVE. Her cloned neuron matrix forms the core of the algorithm, and the brainwave data of seven billion users is feeding the immortality ambitions of ALS patients through neural interfaces.
Concept: Capital does not need the truth, it only needs quantifiable fear.