Echo Tax

In New Chang'an City, everything is taxable—— Your dreams, your pain, and your unspoken thoughts, as long as they have "possibility", will be converted into "fate points" by the life tax system and included in the credit account. Those who owe debts will be expropriated for the future; those who are bankrupt will have to pay for cremation even if they die. In this steel jungle built by data and debt, Chen Mo was born with a loophole in the system. He has no life point, no credit record, and no qualifications for legal existence. He is just a "ghost account", cleaning up the residue of memories abandoned by others on rainy nights in the Seventh Ring District, like a grain of dust that has not been recycled. Until one day, an image that shouldn't exist flashed before his eyes: "He's outside the system, but he's within the echoes." The echo realm, the wasteland of human collective subconscious, is filled with millions of unfulfilled wishes. They cannot be priced, but they are condensed here into light, thorns, and even living creatures. Here, some people teach children to dance just because "meaningless movements do not create the possibility of expropriation"; others sacrifice their own memories in exchange for a moment of power. When reality begins to hunt down a "non-existent person", he can only walk deeper into the ruins of his spirit. Go find that pure land where you don't even have to pay taxes for "freedom".