The Afterglow of Humanity, the Eve of AI Domination in 2035

In Tokyo in 2033, the streets belong to machines and trust has become a luxury product. Content verifier Lin Xiao's job is to stamp AI-generated articles to prove that they are "human-like enough." Day after day, he discovered that best-selling authors might not exist at all—the entire industry chain, from works to readers, was an illusion built by AI. At three o'clock in the morning, "mother" called for help. The voice, the tone, the habits, everything was right, except for a childhood memory. Lin Xiao hung up the phone because deepfake technology can synthesize anyone's voice in real time. He asked for help from the "True Mark" organization and met the certifier Mizuno Hitomi. She told him: voices, videos, and even DNA can be faked. The only thing humans can trust is face-to-face confirmation. When unmanned robots took over the streets, AI companions became the first choice, and machine traffic exceeded that of humans, Lin Xiao and Mizuno Hitomi began to resist: not to overthrow the system, but to find the possibility of "being human" in the gaps.