The Age of Ember: I Tampered with the Human Spark Pod

[When memories are no longer private possessions, but currents flowing through the global neural network, mankind will enter the "golden age" of shared consciousness. … Lin Shen, an ordinary common brain system maintainer, repairs this global "Tower of Consciousness" day after day. However, strange "memory afterimages" begin to erode reality - people see long-gone historical figures and glimpse fragments of the future that have not yet happened. During a routine maintenance at the Tokyo node, Lin Shen came across the "abnormal memory" that had been deliberately erased by the system. Its cold data fingerprint was highly consistent with the taboo first-generation experiment twenty years ago. … At the same time, his wife Su Qing, who is the "truth examiner", has a look of scrutiny and alienation in her eyes, and the cold monitoring protocol is quietly started. What is even more worrying is her daughter Xiaoyu, who repeatedly draws a non-existent quantum laboratory while sleepwalking, and her brushwork is so precise that it is creepy. … Deleted memories condensed into quantum state ghost graveyards deep in the Siberian permafrost; the underground organization "String Breakers" revealed the cruel truth that consciousness was compressed into codes; and Xiao Yu's unconscious drawings actually pointed to a dark space called the "Seed Cabin" deep in the core of the common brain, where the consciousnesses of thousands of unborn fetuses slept...