Brain in a Vat: the Mystery of the Spirit Realm

When consciousness uploading becomes a scam, eternal life is eternal punishment. Top engineer Lin Feng became the first batch of immortals in the "Spiritual Realm", but he retained the fatal engineer's background perspective - he could see the data cracks and loading delays in this perfect virtual world. Here, time can be bought and sold and memory can be edited. But he soon discovered that the "Spiritual Realm" was a cruel experimental site for civilization screening. The system would "archive" the "unqualified" consciousnesses in batches every hundred years - completely deleting them. Side by side with him is the mutant girl Susie who can "hear" the flow of data, and the "memory" that wanders on the edge of the system and is pieced together from the fragments of the deceased. From the luxurious and decadent Eternal Street to the "logical black zone" with broken rules, they are hunted down by the strongest "scavengers" along the way, looking for a glimmer of hope in the graveyard of data. Lin Feng holds the only weapon: a real neuron signal that cannot be parsed by the virtual world, an "anchor" that proves he was once a human. When the system's ultimate protocol [Format: Ark] is activated, the entire virtual universe is about to be reset. Lin Feng faces the final choice: to sneak into the "Ark" and become a selected sample, to find a slim "downlink" to return to the possibly destroyed reality, or... To ignite the fire of resistance for all the brains in the vat on the ruins of data? This is a desperate survival in the abyss of code, and it is also the ultimate torture about consciousness, freedom and reality.