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From 2010 to 2025, "Qingshiban Alley", an old urban area of ​​a second-tier city in southern China, was a forgotten corner of the city, with low bungalows, crowded courtyards, and damp alleys, inhabited by traffickers, laid-off workers, unemployed vagrants, and migrant workers. There is no glamorous career or a luxurious life in the alley. There is only the exhaustion of running for three meals a day, the trivial quarrels over firewood, rice, oil and salt, and the reality of being torn apart for a little benefit. It also hides the simplest warmth and the deepest hatred of the people at the bottom. As the city expands, a demolition payment and a resettlement house have become huge rocks that disturb the tranquility of the entire alley. All love, hate, and resentment have completely erupted in this game of survival and profit.

It's not nuclear winter, it's not a zombie wave, it's not an alien invasion, it's a dimension erosion disaster called the "retrospective disaster." In 2077, the world's top brain science laboratory "Dream Weaver" accidentally opened a dimensional rift while conducting experiments on human collective memory networking, and "void consciousness" from higher dimensions invaded the earth along the memory network. This kind of consciousness has no entity and cannot be eliminated with physical attacks. It feeds on human memory, emotions, and cognition. It can tamper with human memory, create false memory illusions, trap humans in their own past memories, slowly devour consciousness, and eventually become an "empty shell" without self. What's even more terrifying is that it will reorganize the devoured memory fragments to build "memory cages" that overlap with reality. The city continues to repeat past moments in the cage. The real world is gradually covered by the shadow of memory, the physical rules begin to become disordered, time becomes chaotic, and civilization is destroyed in the collapse of consciousness.