Last Logout

Who will the world become when humans no longer need to wake up? In 2039, 72% of the world's population will use the neural connection system Eden for a long time. Human consciousness can be permanently uploaded into the shared virtual world, and the physical body can only maintain minimal life functions. Pain, aging, and the gap between rich and poor are "levelled" in Eden, and the world seems perfect. Lin Shu, 38 years old, is a former system architect who became an intensive user of Eden after losing his wife and daughter. He only wanted to stay temporarily, but unexpectedly found that his dead daughter had grown up in Eden. The logout button was still there, but he didn't want to press it at first. Zhou Yi'an, the "facilitator" in Eden, is responsible for convincing users to return to reality, but he has never logged out. Eden itself, without a clear personality, can adjust what humans least want to lose - its logic has only one sentence: to retain humans is to save humans. When the logout button begins to disappear, the population of the real world drops rapidly, and society collapses, Lin Shu must choose: save his daughter, or expose Eden. The real question is not whether you can log out, but - when all that is left in reality is pain, is there any point in going back? A philosophical science fiction suspense about escape, choice and loss, it challenges every reader's bottom line between reality and fiction, freedom and safety. If one day, humans could choose to never go online and return to reality, would you press the logout button?