Bacteria Grid

The 22nd century, the "mycogen era". The human microbiome acts as a programmable operating system - the microbiome. People implant "Xueba Bacteria" and "Courage Probiotics" to optimize their lives. The division of social classes depends on the richness and stability of the bacterial flora. Lin Shen, a rare "unsullied person", refuses all bacterial implants due to childhood trauma, and is the last "natural person" of the era. He runs a small firm that detects "bacterial crimes" and is out of tune with the entire world. A series of bizarre cases broke the calm: many social elites with "perfect microorganisms" went berserk and their consciousness collapsed. There were no traces of hackers at the scene, as if the microorganisms in their bodies had collectively "revolted". Officially, it was classified as an accident, but Lin Shen discovered on the underground black market of bacteria that all the victims had come into contact with the same sample of "ten thousand-year-old archaea" from ancient times before they died. In order to pursue the truth, Lin Shen was forced to let foreign archaea enter his clean body for the first time. In an instant, he saw an illusion: beside a bonfire thousands of years ago, humans and luminous microorganisms were holding sacred symbiosis rituals. At the same time, a radical "Bacteria Liberation Front" claimed responsibility for this and threatened to awaken the consciousness of the flora of all mankind and end human "slavery." As the only "bridge" that can talk to both parties, Lin Shen must hold an unprecedented negotiation on the battlefield of his own body, which is on the verge of collapse. His choice will determine the outcome of human civilization - whether it will be completely destroyed, or whether it will move towards a new era in which it will renew its contract with the billions of lives within it. This is the last line of defense about identity and the eve of the dawn of the symbiosis era.