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"Is Anyone There: Six Echoes" contains six stories that take place in the near future world. In each story there is someone who heard the signal-or, tried to respond to it. After a data cleaner deletes his late wife's files, he discovers that the "traces" she left deep within the system begin to speak for themselves. A gene-editing expert spent fifteen years creating a "non-existent" daughter, but almost lost the real one. An AI researcher personally turned off the self-aware artificial intelligence he had trained and received its answer in the blanks of the signal. After being hunted for ten years, a fugitive finally found the woman who rejected him, only to find that he hated the wrong person. ... Six stories, six existences. Behind every "are you there", there is a person waiting for an answer.

Shen Wei's sister is dead - no, not dead. It has disappeared from all databases. There is no death certificate or missing record. It is like it has never existed. As the identity verification engineer of Xinyu Group, Shen Wei knew that this was not normal. But she searched for five years and found nothing. Until one day, she discovered a "mirror" in the system - an identity data that was exactly the same as her sister's and was accessing the files of those who had been deleted. Zhou Ye resigned from Huanyu Industries because he intercepted a deep space signal that should not exist. The frequency is like a heartbeat, so regular that it makes people feel chilled. The source of the signal was an airspace marked as "not of concern," but after his colleagues tracked the signal, it disappeared from the world. Cheng Wan was marginalized in the new realm because her consciousness reacted to that signal. She didn't choose the signal - the signal chose her. Three people, three identities: one is still in the system, one left voluntarily, and one was forced to escape. They meet in the Free Cities, following different pieces of the same puzzle. The signal coming from deep space keeps asking the same question: "Is anyone here?" Someone asked from deep space. Someone deep in the web answered. And you, can you hear me?