Loans in the Future

In 2147, human civilization spans across the solar system, but is trapped in the carnival and curse of "time lending". Chronos Group's revolutionary technology makes future lifespan a tradable hard currency - one hour of life can be exchanged for interstellar wealth, one year of life can be exchanged for organ regeneration, and ten years of youth can win colonial privileges. But no one knows that every loan is a contract with the devil: the brain will randomly forget a concept related to "time", from the definition of "second" to the face of the mother, from the memory of love to the date of birth and death. These forgotten fragments will condense into a deadly "antimemetic virus", which will spread across the planet through language, brain waves, and interstellar dust, infecting everyone who touches it. Former interstellar special soldier Karen Walker is the "payer" of this carnival and also a victim. In order to save his mother who was suffering from radiation sickness, he once borrowed three years of his life. Now his memory is full of holes, and even the steps of assembling weapons are becoming increasingly blurred. His partner Ella Reynolds is an AI-enhanced person implanted with a "time-tracking prosthetic eye". The digital memory bank is being corroded by the antimemetic virus bit by bit, but she still adheres to the bottom line of rationality. An unusual mission to recover 20 years of life led them to break into the "memory isolation zone" on the back of the moon and witness the human beings swallowed up by oblivion - they cried to their watches "the circle is devouring life", lost the concepts of "yesterday" and "tomorrow", and eventually turned into ashes... When a virus breaks out in the solar system, cities are paralyzed, newborns lose their sense of time, and infected people transform into "time monsters"...