Redundant Code

When consciousness becomes data, humans upload memories to the virtual ark, pursuing 99.9% Pure immortality. Su Lin, Ark's youngest memory curator, can strip away emotional redundancy to the limit. With a reputation value of 999, he is the perfect symbol of natives. Until he comes across a memory that cannot be deleted - the rusty smell of soil after the rain, mixed with the immigrant mother's useless longing for her deformed daughter. This "illegal redundancy" tainted his compiler, caused his credibility to collapse, and he fell from the altar. What's even more frightening is that he discovered that the deleted 0.1% Of emotions are the server's real antibodies against the decline of computing power. In the three-way game between ghosts, parliament and the Silicon Tribe, Su Lin must make a choice between "perfect immortality" and "incomplete humanity": to become a breaker of the agreement connecting virtuality and reality, or to write an epitaph for human civilization with his own hands?