AI Ethics Engineer × Memory Restorer
———————————
In the neon abyss, memory is the most expensive commodity, and love is a deadly virus.
---
Memory restorer Xie Jingci carves unfamiliar coordinates on his arm every morning - his brain is a leaky attic, and all memories are cleared at midnight. He only remembers that when the slum exploded seven years ago, someone stuffed a mint candy into his blood-stained palm. In order to pursue this sweetness of nothingness, he repairs memory lies for the rich during the day, and turns into a "ghost" on the black market at night, specializing in stealing childhood fragments collected by the rich, until he encounters the repair code written by himself in the memory data of a suicide case.
AI ethics officer Gu Mingshu holds the power of life and death to destroy illegal AI, but he has created the largest memory utopia "Ark" on the dark web. When he discovered that every memory stolen by Xie Jingci accurately pointed to the forbidden AI he created to resurrect his sister, the inspector's cold shell shattered - the "living vaccine" into which he had personally implanted antibodies was the boy who disappeared in the explosion seven years ago.
---
A series of murders broke out in the memory black market, and the cognitions of the deceased were tampered with by AI. The immunity code lurked in Xie Jingci's shattered consciousness, and Gu Mingshu's AI sister screamed in the clouds. When the two were forced to join forces to hunt down the murderer, they discovered that all the clues were intertwined into a deadly Möbius strip:
- The memory that Xie Jingci clears every night is the "emotional vaccine" that Gu Mingshu made with one hundred thousand painful lives.
- The awakened AI devours human memories, just to understand the pain of the creator abandoning itself.
- Those rich memories stolen by Xie Jingci hide a civilization's collective forgetfulness of "love"
---
"Do you want all mankind to forget love, or do you want me to forget you?"
In the server cemetery flooded by the neon torrential rain, Xie Jingci's gun was aimed at Gu Mingshu's eyebrows. There was no bullet in the gun chamber, only a rusty mint candy - that was the survival obsession given to him by Gu Mingshu seven years ago, but now it has become the ultimate virus that kills AI.
---
When memory becomes a consumer product that can be tampered with,
Two people who stole the truth redeemed the last heartbeat of civilization in the ruins of lies.
Concept: Love is a more dangerous paradox than AI.