"When history becomes data that can be tampered with, can we still defend our true selves?"
In 2028, humans use chips to carry memories, but they fall deeper into confusion.
Archaeologist Lin Shu triggered the thousand-year-old bronze compass in the Chu tomb and fell into the strange "mirror world"——
Here, puppet theater troupes roamed the night alleys of Chang'an in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Quantum codes were hidden under Chu Wu Nuo's face, and in every crease of time and space, there was a fatal rule dormant:
You cannot look directly into the faces of nobles, you cannot walk alone in the middle of the night, and you cannot answer questions from the ghosts of history...
In order to solve the dilemma, she was forced to form an alliance with Jiang Lin, a technology giant whose identity is a mystery, but gradually discovered:
The fragment of the compass in his palm can control time and space, but it is also devouring his flesh and blood;
AI assistant Ah Jiu's venomous words contain fragments of his deceased mother's consciousness;
The leader of the "Entropy" organization behind the "Historical Cleansing Plan" was actually her father who had been "dead" for twenty years.
Traveling through the mystery of life and death in ancient and modern times, the three had to find a balance between cold technology and mysterious metaphysics:
Should we let our memories be forever imprisoned by data, or risk our lives to restore the erased truth?
When the Chu Tomb Star Map points to the core of the conspiracy in the real city,
A huge gamble on the survival of civilization has begun...
Purpose: To explore the definition of "truth" - what are the falsehoods of history, memory, and emotion? Can technology carry the weight of humanity?