Fantasyland

The old era ends in cognitive collapse. When humans finally touch the underlying code of thinking, reality becomes a canvas that can be painted on at will. Civilization devours itself in the gap between illusion and reality. Li Zhong, the former capital emperor, was reduced to a vegetative state in a well-designed car accident, but thus became the perfect carrier of the "Civilized Specimen Project". His consciousness was compressed and sealed as the last complete memory template of old humanity. Thousands of years later, "awakening" is a deeper imprisonment. The Jike who awakened him are abstract existences that live in the gap of probability. They feed on the "cognitive echoes" of civilization. The earth has become their narrative pasture, and human beings are performing the choreographed finale of civilization in the cognitive cage of eternal cycles. "Your entire life," Jike's thoughts pierced like an ice pick, "is just a sample of the narrative we cultivated." In this testing ground called "Star Fantasyland", the laws of physics are just modifiable parameters. Li Zhong's wealth and wisdom are meaningless in the face of a reality that can be rewritten. Every time he struggles, he provides the Jike people with richer observational data. When he finally caught a glimpse of the truth: even his awakening and his resistance were all preset plots of the experiment. What the Jike people want to harvest is the last cry of civilization when it faces nothingness. In this ruin of cognition, Li Zhong began to question the last question: when "self" is nothing more than an implanted narrative, is the only way to destroy the cage, is to annihilate this "I" together? Under the starry sky of Gensokyo, a specimen begins to look for his tombstone.