Under the Star Hub

In 2077, the advent of the Xingshu chip ushered in a revolution in brain-computer interface technology. This technological product, originally created for the disabled, has given countless people with disabilities a new lease of life and has become the gospel of equality in the eyes of the world. Lin Ye, the core developer, was a beneficiary of the first-generation chip. He always adhered to the original intention of making up for the defects with technology, but he watched the Xingshu chip become alienated under the push of capital. The enhanced version of the chip was opened to healthy people. The cognitive enhancement function made human thinking efficiency jump, and society was quickly divided into two camps: chip users and natural humans. Chuangzhi Technology CEO Chen Mo secretly tampered with the chip algorithm, making users deeply dependent on consciousness, trying to control elite thinking and divide social resources by monopolizing chips. Lin Ye's wife, dancer Su Wan, gradually lost her independent creativity and memory due to industry competition and upgraded her chips, becoming a vassal of AI. The first case of chip dependence appears, and the crisis of human independent thinking quietly comes. After encountering the de-embedded person A Ling by chance, Lin Ye, who had mastered the core evidence, stood at the dilemma between exposing the truth and protecting his wife. When the gap between social classes continues to widen and chip-dependent people gradually lose themselves, Lin Ye forms an alliance with A-Ling and embarks on the road of cracking algorithms and developing cognitive unbundling programs. A war about the sovereignty of human thinking begins. In the game between technology and human nature, people will eventually understand that true strength is never given by external forces, but by independent thinking that will never be lost, and the true meaning of equality is the right to choose technology or stick to oneself.